[GTALUG] Foone's Silverado Linux discovery - "Go away, go away now, go away fast"

[Howard Gibson]

Stewart,

   It is too bad I am unemployed at the moment.  When you pull down SolidWorks' Help menu and select About SolidWorks, you get a list of all the copyrights from their subcontractors.  Somebody starts a company.  They write some graphics processing code.  They license it to SolidWorks.  They set up a post office box for SolidWorks to send cheques to.  There arew a whole lot of them. 

On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:25:18 -0400
"Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> Popular hardware hacker Foone Turing has found that the Chevy Silverado
> they're renting runs a dubious version of Linux in the entertainment
> console, yet it seems to have some control over some in-car systems and
> talks via the car's wifi (of course). Ongoing slightly sweary thread
> starts here:
> 
>     foone (@Foone) : I'm renting a recent Chevy Silverado pickup truck
>     and it has a big screen for connecting navigation and controlling
>     bluetooth music and such, and it's apparently linux based. You know
>     how it I know? It has the license files for EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE
>     included, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
>     10:21 PM · Jun 18, 2021
>     — https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1406074736803676163
> 
> Definite 'Code Red' from Cabin Pressure material for me ...
> 
> cheers,
> 
>  Stewart
> 
> 
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