On 26/04/12 11:53, Ben Finney wrote: > Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> writes: > > Chris, are you ordering one? I get annoyed with online stores that > insist I create an account in order merely to buy something, and > ZaReason appears to be yet another one of those.
No, only interested in a netbook at the moment. > But, CyanogenMod isn't free software, remember; it has a higher > proportion of free software, but is still very much a non-free operating > system and AFAIK has all the non-free drivers as Android. As I wrote in the blog, they're working with the Software Freedom Conservancy is "pure" (to use their words). > Have ZaReason made the device so that all the hardware works without any > non-free software (programs, firmware, whatever) at all? Yes, they have said to me that they chose the Allwinner A10 because it was the most open SoC they could find. I am not clear about the GPU driver (I presume they are using the Lima Projects fully open one) but they do appear to be making a strong effort to ensure it is fully open (and I suspect they know that if they market it as that and it isn't they will quickly get found out). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
