On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:41 AM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Foss List <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:01 AM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1666707630/plugable-thin-client-the-50-computer > >> > >> It is open hardware. > >> > > > > Its not open hardware > > > > They specifically claim it is so. The design was also reviewed in > phoronix and the comments specifically say it is so. > What is not open ? > > other reviews: > http://plugable.com/ > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/multi-seat.html > > > > > Best > > A. Mani > > > > -- > A. Mani > CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS > http://www.logicamani.co.cc > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > The $50 hardware is from displaylink. The hardware design is fully closed. The company did not provide documentation (Programmer's reference manual) for the hardware. Without that open source drivers could not be written. 2 people from open source community analysed the data that is transferred from OS to device and found out how to program the device. Once they released the info on how to program the hardware displaylink came up with the docs (which was essentially what the open source guys already found). The doc is not complete I guess as it does not provide full info - there is some compression being used the details of which is not exposed by the company (and not yet found by analysing the data). _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
