2016-10-12 4:54 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net>:
> On 10/11/16, Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> wrote: > > On 2016-10-11 19:11 +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: > > > I don't really know about the pine people specifically, but having > > recently met with a guy from Allwinner (who is paying Luke to educate > > his engineers :-) > > correction / misunderstanding: he's not. > > > They have noticed the persistent bad press/poor reputation and have > > understood that what geeks think does actually matter in the long > > term, as does upstreaming. > > well, it's about to get a hell of a lot worse. i flew 20,000 miles > round the world, was invited here to speak with their engineers, help > them out, set up a FusionForge for them, make it possible for them to > present the R-Series processors to open hardware and software libre > people across the world, even present the idea of using RISC-V and > Nyuzi 3D for a future processor... > > ... and i learn the day after that from being on their premises for > only five hours i've been accused of being here to commit industrial > espionage, to steal their proprietary source code. > I bet you wished you met them on neutral ground. Someone there is got very antsy with your arrival on their turf. Like Frank Herbert wrote "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." An you just got bitten by the one covering mistakes. > > now, from 20 years experience i know that i cannot work with engineers > who do not welcome what i have to say or contribute. in this case i > cannot even be in the building because there is the opportunity that > if someone else *does* actually commit industrial espionage, they > might accuse *me* - and the person who invited me into the building - > of being the one that stole the code. > > this from the company that's been stealing software libre source and > profiting with complete disregard or respect for the people whose work > they critically rely on. > > i'm really upset. > > i'll be leaving zhuhai either today or tomorrow. > > if they apologise i'll come back. > I hope they do but I doubt they will (be able to). Luckily the A20 is available on the open market. But I guess some suppliers will be steered. Good luck. And don't forget to breathe. > > irony is that i need somewhere to live for myself and my family, and > zhuhai looks like it's the best place to be. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk >
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