Re: [free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
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 […] Chris, are you ordering

Re: [free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Brian May
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

Re: [free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Samuel
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

Re: [free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Samuel
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