On 22 December 2010 20:39, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
curi...@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl wrote:
So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to
be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source
doesn't _require_ the corporate world to survive.
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Le mercredi 22 décembre 2010 à 15:29 -0500, Nicolas Pitre a écrit :
It is
not economically viable for the Open Source community to accommodate
proprietary drivers, irrespective of how loud you might advocate for
that.
I think you can remove the word economically from your sentence (or
it would take until a beta driver appears? 1 year? 2 years? And what will happen
in the meantime?
plainly.some other company will take over the market, and sell products
with open drivers available.
in meantime arm devices can still be used for i.e. dataloggers, especially
without linux
Hi Tom,
On 12/22/2010 06:51 PM, Tom Gall wrote:
Hi Robert,
I don't know if Paul was successful but I do build systems from the
linaro/ubuntu packages so I suspect I can probably be of some
assistance.
Great! Thanks for offering your help.
This might be something better discussed
The GPLv2 is written such that the if you're interfacing the kernel
or compiler you don't need to opensource that bit with your app
I would suggest you re-read the license. It says nothing of the sort.
Indeed the gcc compiler licensing for the compiler support library is
actually rather
way to behave. The best way to get companies to change their behaviour is
to find them and support them. Making threatening GPL noises in email does
not help them in any way.
I would disagree based on years of history.
The best way to get a company to change behaviour is for a situation
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:18:21AM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote:
Ownership of the code is dependent on who licensed it. I do not think
Linaro need be so concerned over opensourcing or reimplementing
drivers. The fact that the kernel driver is open source as it is, and
this is by far the most
Alan,
I still stand by my assertion that educating companies as to the
realities and philosophies of open source is better than threatening them.
Your analogy of open source as a standard, a practical de facto standard
written in a programming language is a good one.Forking code
On 13.12.2010 20:00, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
Khem Rajraj.k...@gmail.com wrote:
The bug http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46883 files
against GCC trunk also happens with linaro gcc 4.5
My guess is that there is a backported patch from trunk into linaro
4.5 tree thats causing this ICE
