http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspberry-pi_p4-7000009718/
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Upton believes the platform is as open as it can be, given the need of
companies like Broadcom to protect their intellectual property — the
designs of the underlying chip architecture — and also questions the
pragmatic benefits of making the platform this open.
"It would be lovely if we distributed the source for everything,
including the firmware and the documentation for all of the registers.
I'm not quite sure I can understand the benefit it would bring to the
community," he said.
"We and Broadcom put an enormous amount of effort where we could do
that level of open source. I would like to open more stuff up but it's
going to be tough. If you can't articulate a tangible commercial benefit
to the IP holder, the person who has borrowed money from their IP
investor, then you are on a hiding to nothing.
"My view is where we've got to is sufficient to give people the goals
of free software, which is for you to have control over what your
machine does."
He jokes that he is tempted to test the Pi's critics' commitment to
having an open-source GPU.
"I'm tempted to do a Kickstarter and say 'I'm going to produce an
open-source GPU'. I want $2m from all the people who've criticised me,"
he said.
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yeah, sounds nice from him...
yg
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