[Arm-netbook] evaluating rk3188

[Oliver Schinagl]

On 16-07-13 17:40, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * luke.leighton (luke.leighton at gmail.com) wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Tom Cubie <mr.hipboi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I heard rockchips is planning open source some time in the future.
>>> Someone told me they are working on u-boot. But when i visited them,
>>> they said no interest in open source.
>>
>>   bizarre.  and of slight concern, given that their business is
>> critically dependent on free software...
>
> Well it's dependent on other peoples software being free; but they
> obviously don't see much to gain; after all they're already selling zillions
> of these chips in their current state of non-openness.
>
> Other than a few orgs like yours that's too small to interest them
> they have no incentive.
But are they violating the GPL? :)
>
> Dave
>