Adaptec violating the GPL

Adaptec is shipping a number of products in an GPL in-compliant way. We've already enforced the first infringing product that I learned about, the Adaptec iSA1500, an iSCSI storage array.

Instead of showing the community their support and at least providing the full corresponding source code on their download page, they now require you to send a written letter to their legal department to a US postal address in order to get the source code for a specific product.

This really looks like they're trying to make it as hard as possible for anyone to get the sources, while still staying withing the boundaries of the GPL.

I don't really know what they gain by that.

Back to Curitiba after 4.5 years

So this was my first day of Curitiba, after being on a scheduled-11hrs but finally 13hrs bus ride from Porto Alegre through the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. The bus ride was really nice, something that I could be doing every day ;) Lots of interesting landscape passing by, very comfortable seats and an extremely quiet atmosphere. I had lots of time to listen to music, do a bit of hacking (though typing is a bit difficult considering the condition of many roads), reading as well as thinking about various aspects of life, the universe and everything ;)

I've also encountered to signs that are note mentioning: One was translated to "smile! you are being filmed by surveillance cameras". The other one was "This hard shoulder is provided by the federal government". ;) Unfortunately in both cases I didn't have the time to get my camera out and ready to take a picture. SLR's are just not the right tools for quick snapshots.

In Curitiba itself, it was nice to recognize the various places once again. I yet have to go to my former apartment, but I've seen the former office of Conectiva, the commercial center, etc. Everything has changed quite a bit...

First I was thinking of hiring a motorbike here for a bit of travelling - but then I recalled that riding a bike while having a bit of a flu is not really a good idea, so I'm actually hiring a car for two days now. Planning to visit Vila Velha and Santa Felicidade (which apparently claims to have a beautiful cemetery, for Brazilian standards).

At night went out for dinner with Claudio Matsuoka and Helio Castro. Talked a lot about my travels to India and got them interested in travelling there at some point.

Tomorrow I'll probably be mainly working. Having broadband at the hotel always has a good and a bad side. There's always a pile of work waiting...