[Arm-netbook] Some Pine64 Experiences (via Planet Debian)

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This is unacceptable behavior from them.

Le 12/10/2016 04:54, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit :
> On 10/11/16, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:
>> On 2016-10-11 19:11 +0200, Paul Boddie wrote:
> 
>> I don't really know about the pine people specifically, but having
>> recently met with a guy from Allwinner (who is paying Luke to educate
>> his engineers :-)
> 
> correction / misunderstanding: he's not.
> 
>> They have noticed the persistent bad press/poor reputation and have
>> understood that what geeks think does actually matter in the long
>> term, as does upstreaming.
> 
> well, it's about to get a hell of a lot worse.  i flew 20,000 miles
> round the world, was invited here to speak with their engineers, help
> them out, set up a FusionForge for them, make it possible for them to
> present the R-Series processors to open hardware and software libre
> people across the world, even present the idea of using RISC-V and
> Nyuzi 3D for a future processor...
> 
> ... and i learn the day after that from being on their premises for
> only five hours i've been accused of being here to commit industrial
> espionage, to steal their proprietary source code.
> 
> now, from 20 years experience i know that i cannot work with engineers
> who do not welcome what i have to say or contribute.  in this case i
> cannot even be in the building because there is the opportunity that
> if someone else *does* actually commit industrial espionage, they
> might accuse *me* - and the person who invited me into the building -
> of being the one that stole the code.
> 
> this from the company that's been stealing software libre source and
> profiting with complete disregard or respect for the people whose work
> they critically rely on.
> 
> i'm really upset.
> 
> i'll be leaving zhuhai either today or tomorrow.
> 
> if they apologise i'll come back.
> 
> irony is that i need somewhere to live for myself and my family, and
> zhuhai looks like it's the best place to be.
> 
> l.
> 
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