[Arm-netbook] "smarter" phone

[luke.leighton]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Zsolt Sztupak <mail at sztupy.hu> wrote:
>
> On 28 May 2013, at 11:51, Neal Peacock <neal at nic-stix.com> wrote:
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>>
>>
>> Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Philip Hands wrote:
>>>> "luke.leighton" <luke.leighton at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.c2mtl.com/eye50/ideas/smarter-phone/
>>>>>
>>>>> wooow.  i love it.
>>>>
>>>> Nice.
>>>>
>>>> Not _very_ related, but another phone that someone mentioned on
>>> Planet
>>>> Debian recently, that might pique interest here:
>>>>
>>>>   http://www.fairphone.com/
>>>>
>>>> in particular their attempts to find manufacturer's that don't rub
>>> their
>>>> ethics up the wrong way.
>>>
>>> given the very closed and protective nature of MTK, I fail to see how
>>> a phone using their SoC can be "fair"...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The MTK kernel source is out finally.  Alcatel has released it for processors up to even the recent quad core.

 good for them!  wow.  i'm impressed.  alcatel was the source of GPL
compliance for previous kernel sources for mediatek processors as
well.

> Still kinda useless (if you want to modify Android) without the Android platform code that was changed.

 android is under the apache2 license.  there is absolutely no reason
in hell why they should release the code.  there is absolutely no
legal obligation for them to release the code.

 now you know why the apache2 license is such a fucking bad idea.

l.