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

[Jacky Lau]

When talk with Chinese people at this age, you should put MONEY first
at your head, FREEDOM on the last one, the LAW may be the penultimate.
Don't tell them that they should open the source, buy the copyright
and release the source under GPL by yourself. Hiring Chinese people to
write free software can make each other happy - you get freedom, they
get money. In China, you can hire a very good IC or software developer
by salary of U.S. $ 2000-3000. Run a fabless company by one million
per year in China is possibly.



2012/6/26 Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.ru>:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:19:35 +0200
> Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> freedom comes with the price of battery life :)
>
> Should have signed that with "Sent from my Yeeloong". :)
>
> But seriously.
> In the western world companies are often hesitant to open low-level details
> majorly because their concern is zomg patents zomg intellectual property zomg
> we will get sued. Like you said it is less of a concern in China. So maybe
> this is one more aspect where it'll be easier than with the western companies
> to find certain amount of support and cooperation. What remains in my opinion
> is convincing Chinese companies management that going through all "our" silly
> rituals (publishing the source code, with proper GPL headers everywhere, etc),
> will be actually beneficial for them.
>
> Now.
> Consider the A10 was a first-class supported platform in Debian. With a
> straightforward installation process, every device fully and reliably
> functioning, with rock-solid 2D and Xv acceleration and complete OpenGL ES
> support.
>
> Next step?
> You can make 10 million small form factor PCs, think Mele A1000 maybe without
> SATA/RCA/remote and no Android b/s, just with Debian from the factory, priced
> $50 and sell them to the education or government market.
>
> The A10 (or maybe its next generation) with good X11 acceleration and other
> mentioned things working would have no problems running even heavier software
> like LibreOffice and Firefox. But perhaps few even understand that these
> "Android TV Boxes" are just one little step from being an almost full-featured
> desktop PC which costs $50 and consumes 5 Watts at full load.
>
> So maybe getting the point across that small things which aren't really going
> to endanger their ongoing Android TV box business, just require a little effort
> (releasing all the needed bits under the GPL), but may *significantly* expand
> potential uses of their product, could help in achieving the goal.
>
> --
> With respect,
> Roman
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "Stallman had a printer,
> with code he could not see.
> So he began to tinker,
> and set the software free."
>
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