<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Jacky Lau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:i90091e@gmail.com" target="_blank">i90091e@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
When talk with Chinese people at this age, you should put MONEY first<br>
at your head, FREEDOM on the last one, the LAW may be the penultimate.<br>
Don't tell them that they should open the source, buy the copyright<br>
and release the source under GPL by yourself. Hiring Chinese people to<br>
write free software can make each other happy - you get freedom, they<br>
get money. In China, you can hire a very good IC or software developer<br>
by salary of U.S. $ 2000-3000. Run a fabless company by one million<br>
per year in China is possibly.<br>
<br>
<br></blockquote><div>here salary means per month, $12000 - $18000 per year.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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2012/6/26 Roman Mamedov <<a href="mailto:rm@romanrm.ru">rm@romanrm.ru</a>>:<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:19:35 +0200<br>
> Vladimir Pantelic <<a href="mailto:vladoman@gmail.com">vladoman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> freedom comes with the price of battery life :)<br>
><br>
> Should have signed that with "Sent from my Yeeloong". :)<br>
><br>
> But seriously.<br>
> In the western world companies are often hesitant to open low-level details<br>
> majorly because their concern is zomg patents zomg intellectual property zomg<br>
> we will get sued. Like you said it is less of a concern in China. So maybe<br>
> this is one more aspect where it'll be easier than with the western companies<br>
> to find certain amount of support and cooperation. What remains in my opinion<br>
> is convincing Chinese companies management that going through all "our" silly<br>
> rituals (publishing the source code, with proper GPL headers everywhere, etc),<br>
> will be actually beneficial for them.<br>
><br>
> Now.<br>
> Consider the A10 was a first-class supported platform in Debian. With a<br>
> straightforward installation process, every device fully and reliably<br>
> functioning, with rock-solid 2D and Xv acceleration and complete OpenGL ES<br>
> support.<br>
><br>
> Next step?<br>
> You can make 10 million small form factor PCs, think Mele A1000 maybe without<br>
> SATA/RCA/remote and no Android b/s, just with Debian from the factory, priced<br>
> $50 and sell them to the education or government market.<br>
><br>
> The A10 (or maybe its next generation) with good X11 acceleration and other<br>
> mentioned things working would have no problems running even heavier software<br>
> like LibreOffice and Firefox. But perhaps few even understand that these<br>
> "Android TV Boxes" are just one little step from being an almost full-featured<br>
> desktop PC which costs $50 and consumes 5 Watts at full load.<br>
><br>
> So maybe getting the point across that small things which aren't really going<br>
> to endanger their ongoing Android TV box business, just require a little effort<br>
> (releasing all the needed bits under the GPL), but may *significantly* expand<br>
> potential uses of their product, could help in achieving the goal.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> With respect,<br>
> Roman<br>
><br>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
> "Stallman had a printer,<br>
> with code he could not see.<br>
> So he began to tinker,<br>
> and set the software free."<br>
><br>
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