On 4/3/08, Wolfgang Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Hervé,
> here is my perspective:
> Most chip vendors see their business in selling chips. Documentation is just
> a necessary evil to them, they are trying to get away with the minimum
> amount of documentation that will still sell the ch
Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
Dear Hervé,
here is my perspective:
>[...;]
Most chip vendors see their business in selling chips. Documentation is
engineers can. Again we could only do this with vendors who understand
what we are doing, trust us, and generally agree to the idea. We would
Sebastian Billaudelle wrote:
I think it would be the best way...
And why is it not fair?
He would be a "real" part of the project. What's wrong with that?
Well, why not. i'm not concerned. just to be asked to the chip vendor.
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I bet if you could name such a device, they would have no problem in using it for future products.
I bet that if my incomes would exclusively depend on producing such a
device, i would use time to search for it.
Everything i do, or sale, depends on free software (even for drivers),
even if
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Subject: Re: Openmoko strives for openness (smedia glamo)
Dear Hervé,
here is my perspective:
Most chip vendors see their
Could also put an FPGA between the processor and the display, and
maybe some developers will figure out how to accelerate the most
frequently used drawing functions. Just an idea... I know it's a long
shot and probably takes too much power too... but for a while there
was an "open" PCI video card
Dear Hervé,
here is my perspective:
Most chip vendors see their business in selling chips. Documentation
is just a necessary evil to them, they are trying to get away with the
minimum amount of documentation that will still sell the chip.
Unless in very few cases, chip vendors do not see good
I think it would be the best way...
And why is it not fair?
He would be a "real" part of the project. What's wrong with that?
cheers
Sebastian
Am Donnerstag, den 03.04.2008, 23:17 +0800 schrieb Wolfgang Spraul:
> I like this idea, I think this is legally OK and if we are open and
> honest abo
I like this idea, I think this is legally OK and if we are open and
honest about it, may even become an accepted practice known to our
vendors.
Need to do some more checks on that...
Wolfgang
On Apr 3, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Harald Welte wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:32:31AM +0100, Tom Cooks
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Subject:Re: Openmoko strives for openness (smedia glamo)
Author: herve couvelard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03rd April 2008 2:21 pm
> what if you become part of openmoko? Just sign some kind of work
> contract
what if you become part of openmoko? Just sign some kind of work
contract (like other freelancers had and still have with openmoko),
but with only USD 1 in return for your work, adding a clause that you
keep the copyright on your work?
This way you are legally part of openmoko, have access to
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:32:31AM +0100, Tom Cooksey wrote:
> On Sunday 30 March 2008 13:42:23 Harald Welte wrote:
> > Please note though, that being one of the persons who drafted the
> > wording on the contract between Smedia and OpenMoko: The contract
> > contains explicit provisions for OpenMo
On Wednesday 02 April 2008 18:32, Tom Cooksey wrote:
> On Sunday 30 March 2008 13:42:23 Harald Welte wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:46:52PM +0100, joerg wrote:
> > > Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Lally Singh:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> | On Wednesday 02 April 2008 11:07:47 Andy Green wrote:
> |> There's a 6) I thought about, AFAIK it could theoretically anyway be
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| On Wednesday 02 April 2008 11:07:47 Andy Green wrote:
|> There's a 6) I thought about, AFAIK it could theoretically anyway be
|> possible we can write detailed header files for an open driver which
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| 5) Some poor person tries to write a driver without the docs. :-/
There's a 6) I thought about, AFAIK it could the
On Wednesday 02 April 2008 11:07:47 Andy Green wrote:
> There's a 6) I thought about, AFAIK it could theoretically anyway be
> possible we can write detailed header files for an open driver which
> contain register and bitfield enums and comments for the 3D unit. If we
> did write our own we would
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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| 5) Some poor person tries to write a driver without the docs. :-/
There's a 6) I thought about, AFAIK it could theoretically anyway be
possible we can write detailed header files for an open driver which
On Sunday 30 March 2008 13:42:23 Harald Welte wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:46:52PM +0100, joerg wrote:
> > Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Lally Singh:
> > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > > >
> > >
Le dimanche 30 mars 2008 à 13:42 +0200, Harald Welte a écrit :
[...]
> Please note though, that being one of the persons who drafted the
> wording on the contract between Smedia and OpenMoko: The contract
> contains explicit provisions for OpenMoko preparing a set of
> documentation for the Glamo
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:46:52PM +0100, joerg wrote:
> Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Lally Singh:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > >
> > > >> 2. Actually, is there any hope of getting 3d acceleration o
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