Re: S-Media's self-damaging NDA-happiness
Does this scenario work well for S Media? No. Their NDA-happiness does seem very stupid, as they don't seem to have much of an edge against the bigger players besides their lack of overt hostility to free software development. (Okay, possibly cost, but I wouldn't know about that.) wasn't there talk some time ago that om could not release the genuine nda'd docs, but could do their own from them which could be released, but they lack the manpower to do so? if so, isn't there a way one of the hardware geniusses on the list could join the nda and fabricate free docs from it or so? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: S-Media's self-damaging NDA-happiness
Does this scenario work well for S Media? No. Their NDA-happiness does seem very stupid, as they don't seem to have much of an edge against the bigger players besides their lack of overt hostility to free software development. (Okay, possibly cost, but I wouldn't know about that.) It does seem stupid. I know that some larger GPU manufacturers are often forced into de-facto NDAs by the film industry and prominent software companies (no need to name names) so that people can't potentially write drivers to bypass DRM technology, but it's not like people are going to be watching 1080p HD content on their Freerunners. Does anyone from SMedia subscribe to this mailing-list, or does anyone know how we can get in touch with them to ask the relevant questions? I don't believe that writing direct to the framebuffer solves anything as far as graphic performance is concerned, I think we need a graphic accelerator that works and can be coded for. Aaron ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: S-Media's self-damaging NDA-happiness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 arne anka wrote: wasn't there talk some time ago that om could not release the genuine nda'd docs, but could do their own from them which could be released, but they lack the manpower to do so? if so, isn't there a way one of the hardware geniusses on the list could join the nda and fabricate free docs from it or so? If I remember well OM has the possibility to make only some source code well commented, but I think is very difficult that OM can give us the access to such documentation :( And it is not OM fault! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFImEXgSIAU/I6SkT0RAiJgAJ9yeAFEvW5G9mZ4qS5GL6PYXAlr/QCgoKsb sAzA0v3LZTNPcauFqBe8VAM= =2Q5C -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: S-Media's self-damaging NDA-happiness
this will probably be very stupid: can't they employ someone like a freelance programmer (a community member of course)? so-called only for 1 day (and give him the minimum wage or whatever) wouldn't it be ok to send him the docs then? Naturally he will shred those docs immediately when the day is over. after some time he can then maybe tell us he is a natural-born documentation writer and on that one day he made his own documentation (surely without the help of other community members) and would very much like to share his work with us all. the only problem is that there wouldn't be enough beer in the whole world to thank him who knows... maybe he even did more on that one day then just document it all On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM, arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this scenario work well for S Media? No. Their NDA-happiness does seem very stupid, as they don't seem to have much of an edge against the bigger players besides their lack of overt hostility to free software development. (Okay, possibly cost, but I wouldn't know about that.) wasn't there talk some time ago that om could not release the genuine nda'd docs, but could do their own from them which could be released, but they lack the manpower to do so? if so, isn't there a way one of the hardware geniusses on the list could join the nda and fabricate free docs from it or so? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
