[Arm-netbook] $250 Dev Kit

[Gordan Bobic]

lkcl luke wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> 
>> business sense for them. One of these days, another commercial company
>> is going to come up with a product that is based on the first one and
>> fail to release their "embrace and extend" features back with sources.
> 
>  ... you mean like openmoko, mysql and oracle, trolltech and nokia?
> 
>  openmoko promised to keep the svn for the GTA02 up "forever": i found
> a post on the qi-hardware list asking if it would be ok to mirror the
> svn.openmoko.org repositories - they then went onto GTA03, "promising"
> to release the schematics later... but they took svn.openmoko.org
> *down* in order to keep the GTA03 schematics "secret".  now you can't
> _get_ the openmoko schematics [for the GTA02].  and now look where
> openmoko is.
> 
>  trolltech always released GPL code... 6 months late.  now they've
> been bought by nokia: nokia's smartphone is now under offer to be
> bought by microsoft:
> http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/05/2325227/microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-nokias-smartphone-division
> 
>  oracle, i don't wanna talk about oracle :)

Sure, I get all that. But eventually two companies that are sufficiently 
small to be willing to rock that boat will do so and set a precedent. 
The optimist in me is hoping that things will get much easier from there on.

Gordan