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

[lkcl luke]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well... there are two basic motivations in the world:
> the carrot and the stick.
>
> Since the stick (GPL copyright) is ineffective in China, we can offer
> a carrot instead.
>
> (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)

 alexey - it's a thought...

> 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)

 ... but no :)

 the volume of units that the PRC state-sponsored company we are
talking to is at 1/4 capacity at the moment and they can assemble two
MILLLION units PER WEEK.

 there might be a third way: altruism.  i may try the route "look, we
got you orders of magnitude 10e6, you've made money comfortably, and
your business is stable and not at risk.  how about you help us to
help you, by releasing the cedarx source code and other bits?"

 perhaps with a leeetle bit of "stick" in as well, by mentioning that
people like doing reverse-engineering and that would mean that the
copyright notice on code distributed with *their* product would be
some random person and not "Copyright (C) Allwinner Tech" :)

 l.