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

[Tom Cubie]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Jacky Lau <i90091e at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> here salary means per month, $12000 - $18000 per year.

>
> 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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