Re: Sellers of chinese tablets

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Till Harbaum <till <at> harbaum.org> wrote:
> On Monday, April 16, 2012 01:34:05 lkcl luke wrote:
>>  yes.  i forgot to mention before: china operates on a cash-only
>> basis.  there *is* no credit.  this is why they demand that you give
>> them money before complying with the GPL.

> I don't understand the relationship here. Why would a credit allow them
> to comply with the GPL without asking for money first?

 i bought samples, and asked for the source code.  they refused, in
direct violation of the GPL.  when pressed, they demanded money in the
form of a cash order for 20,000 units.

 i told them, nicely, that they must be off their fucking heads.  the
reason is very simple: the product (the sample) was purchased because
it was a low-cost platfom to put in front of our customers, in order
to *replace* the stupid shit software that *they* had put on it, and
to sell thousands of units in Europe, with *our* software (well,
actually, the client's software).

 i told them that if i put the unit in front of our client, and
relayed their ransom demands to the client, that our client would
think we were fucking retarded and would never speak to us again.

 this made absolutely no difference.

 .... but this situation we did not encounter just once: it happened
about FOUR TIMES.  in the end i went "sod this i'm not wasting any
more time pursuing GPL violations: i'm going to find factories that
need Software (Libre) expertise, and i'm going to start an initiative