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November 8, 2008
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Diebold just can’t seem to keep its nose clean these days. The nation’s largest manufacturer of ATMs admitted not too long ago what everybody already knew: that their e-voting machines were totally bunk. Apparently in the course of that investigation it emerged that the company also thought it would be a laugh to load the open source Ghostscript Postscript interpreter software into those faulty machines without releasing its changes or paying the proprietary usage license fee — leading Aritex, its developer, to file a lawsuit. It doesn’t really instill confidence any further to hear that our nation’s terrible electronic voting machines are running on stolen software, guys — and to be honest, we’re kinda starting to wish you’d get out of the ATM business, too.
Diebold’s e-voting machines violate GPL, good taste originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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