On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:33:12 Russell Coker wrote:
Google has a set of binary-only proprietary apps for Android which
can only be installed by a hardware vendor who satisfies some
Google conditions.
That appears to no longer be the case..
Hi folks,
Sorry for being so quiet recently and missing meetings, a combination
of lots of work and some timetable clashes..
The US company ZaReason who build Linux systems (and are currently
investigating opening a store in New Zealand) have been working on a
fully open Android tablet for some
Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org writes:
Sorry for being so quiet recently and missing meetings, a combination
of lots of work and some timetable clashes..
No-one is obligated to be chatty or quiet, so no apology necessary :-)
http://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html
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Chris, are you ordering
On 26 April 2012 11:53, Ben Finney ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
But, CyanogenMod isn't free software, remember; it has a higher
proportion of free software, but is still very much a non-free operating
system and AFAIK has all the non-free drivers as Android.
AFAIK, Android itself is
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote:
On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:33:12 Russell Coker wrote:
Google has a set of binary-only proprietary apps for Android which
can only be installed by a hardware vendor who satisfies some
Google conditions.
That appears to
On 26/04/12 11:53, Ben Finney wrote:
Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org writes:
Chris, are you ordering one? I get annoyed with online stores that
insist I create an account in order merely to buy something, and
ZaReason appears to be yet another one of those.
No, only interested in a netbook
On 26 April 2012 12:58, Tim Cuthbertson t...@gfxmonk.net wrote:
There's a note on that page that some apps can now be downloaded from
the marketplace, but it's important to realise that the marketplace
app itself is one such binary-only app that you can't legally get
unless it came with your
On 26/04/12 12:58, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
Unless I'm missing something, that still seems to back up Matt's statement.
Er, I was replying to Russell..
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On 26 April 2012 12:58, Tim Cuthbertson t...@gfxmonk.net wrote:
There's a note on that page that some apps can now be downloaded from
the marketplace, but it's important to realise that the marketplace
app itself is one such binary-only app that you can't legally get
unless it came with your
On 26 April 2012 13:16, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote:
The google apps have been included with the iso distribution of
android-x86 - does this mean downloading it is illegal?
Supposedly android-x86 is entirely open source - see
http://www.android-x86.org/ - I wonder if
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote:
On 26/04/12 12:58, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
Unless I'm missing something, that still seems to back up Matt's statement.
Er, I was replying to Russell..
Oops, saw Matt's face above yours in the thread and assumed he was the
On 26 April 2012 13:31, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au wrote:
From those links, I found http://goo.im/gapps, which took me to here:
http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Google_Apps
Oh, it is kind of weird and unsettling when I copy and paste the links
(right click and select copy) from
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Tim Cuthbertson t...@gfxmonk.net wrote:
There are links to downloads of the google apps on that wiki, but I
expect it's illegal to distribute them, and maybe even to download
them.
I think that Google might be most concerned about mass distributors (which is
the point of
On 26/04/12 13:16, Chris Samuel wrote:
Yes, they have said to me that they chose the Allwinner A10 because it
was the most open SoC they could find. I am not clear about the GPU
driver
Asked via Twitter, their response was:
https://twitter.com/#!/ZaReasonNZ/status/195359671450742785
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