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by ansible 4501 days ago
Whatever RasPi is, the fact remains that they're selling a relatively open platform at price near production costs. And that platform just got significantly more open.

And they are now offering a bounty for the creation (refinement, really) of more free software. Which will benefit the entire community surrounding the RasPi. So that is good. Even if they were offering $10 USD, there might be someone who'll take up the challenge just to get the bragging rights.
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sneak 4501 days ago
"Relatively open" in the way that your mother was "relatively pregnant" when you were born?
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zxexz 4501 days ago
Are you suggesting he's a premie?
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sneak 4500 days ago
No, I'm suggesting that "relatively open" is semantically null.
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ansible 4500 days ago
No, I'm suggesting that "relatively open" is semantically null.

I don't know if you are familiar with the embedded world, but a large percentage of the offerings (specifically system on chip or SoC) have NDA requirements for the documentation.

And many of these platforms don't have a decent Linux port, even though they could support it.

Even with SoC vendors such as TI, the graphics core for the OMAP4 (for example) is a binary blob. There is no documentation for that, and no hope that situation to change (in part because TI has exited the mobile phone market).

Please tell us of your mobile platform experience, and what vendors you consider open or closed.

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