[Arm-netbook] Any ARM SoC has Open-Source access to hardware video decoder ?

[Tom Cubie]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Peter Steenbergen
> <p.steenbergen at j1nx.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >> (explain them that desktop Linux market has over 15,000,000 PCs
> >> world-wide, and explain them, that if they comply with GPL they could
> >> take part of it... several percent)
> >> Just 2% of this Linux market would equal to 300,000 sales for Chinese.
> >> (which may or may not be enough to justify the costs of drivers
> >> development... but I hope it is enough)
> >>
> > They have 1.6 billion people over there in china. They don't care about
> the
> > world
>
> [correction] only 1.3 billion people, according to Wikipedia.
> Assuming that those 1.3 billion wanna play Angry Birds, they can keep
> Android.
> If those 1.3 billion people wanna do some serious work on their
> computers,

full Linux OS is the way to go.
>
Microsoft Windows is free in China or a disk of 5 rmb, even in many
companies.

>
> --
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
>
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