Oh, and just to be clear, I think the Pi is brilliant and is a great step towards progressively opening systems. It's also brilliant because it gets people really thinking that open systems are feasible. You're just not going to force anyone to open their binary blobs, and it's certainly not going to help to kill the messenger (i.e. the makers of the Pi).
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.zdnet.com/we-**thought-wed-sell-1000-the-** > inside-story-of-the-raspberry-**pi_p4-7000009718/<http://www.zdnet.com/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-inside-story-of-the-raspberry-pi_p4-7000009718/> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Upton believes the platform is as open as it can be, given the need of > companies like Broadcom to protect their intellectual property — the > designs of the underlying chip architecture — and also questions the > pragmatic benefits of making the platform this open. > > "It would be lovely if we distributed the source for everything, including > the firmware and the documentation for all of the registers. I'm not quite > sure I can understand the benefit it would bring to the community," he said. > > "We and Broadcom put an enormous amount of effort where we could do that > level of open source. I would like to open more stuff up but it's going to > be tough. If you can't articulate a tangible commercial benefit to the IP > holder, the person who has borrowed money from their IP investor, then you > are on a hiding to nothing. > > "My view is where we've got to is sufficient to give people the goals of > free software, which is for you to have control over what your machine > does." > > He jokes that he is tempted to test the Pi's critics' commitment to having > an open-source GPU. > > "I'm tempted to do a Kickstarter and say 'I'm going to produce an > open-source GPU'. I want $2m from all the people who've criticised me," he > said. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > yeah, sounds nice from him... > > yg > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/**mailman/listinfo/open-graphics<http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics> > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) -- Timothy Normand Miller, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/ Open Graphics Project
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