On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:57:59PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspberry-pi_p4-7000009718/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > yeah, sounds nice from him... > > yg
*sigh* Yet another minute i now have to waste talking about rpi in my upcoming fosdem talk. Eben, face the facts: the broadcom chips with a videocore arevery closed platforms with the videocore doing lots of things behind the arm's back. Now stop trying to convince us otherwise. Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
