On 26/04/12 13:16, Chris Samuel wrote:
> Yes, they have said to me that they chose the Allwinner A10 because it
> was the most open SoC they could find. I am not clear about the GPU
> driver
Asked via Twitter, their response was:
https://twitter.com/#!/ZaReasonNZ/status/195359671450742785
@chr
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
> There are links to downloads of the google apps on that wiki, but I
> expect it's illegal to distribute them, and maybe even to download
> them.
I think that Google might be most concerned about mass distributors (which is
the point of copyright) and
On 26 April 2012 13:31, Brian May wrote:
> From those links, I found http://goo.im/gapps, which took me to here:
> http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Google_Apps
Oh, it is kind of weird and unsettling when I copy and paste the links
(right click and select copy) from
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Lates
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On 26/04/12 12:58, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
>
>> Unless I'm missing something, that still seems to back up Matt's statement.
>
> Er, I was replying to Russell..
Oops, saw Matt's face above yours in the thread and assumed he was the
one quoted.
On 26 April 2012 13:16, Brian May wrote:
> The google apps have been included with the iso distribution of
> android-x86 - does this mean downloading it is illegal?
>
> Supposedly android-x86 is entirely open source - see
> http://www.android-x86.org/ - I wonder if somebody made a mistake
> includ
On 26 April 2012 12:58, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
> There's a note on that page that some apps can now be downloaded from
> the marketplace, but it's important to realise that the marketplace
> app itself is one such binary-only app that you can't legally get
> unless it came with your phone.
>From
On 26/04/12 12:58, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something, that still seems to back up Matt's statement.
Er, I was replying to Russell..
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On 26/04/12 13:16, Chris Samuel wrote:
> As I wrote in the blog, they're working with the Software Freedom
> Conservancy is "pure" (to use their words).
Hmm, missed some words there, let's try that again..
As I wrote in the blog, they're working with the Software Freedom
Conservancy, apparently
On 26 April 2012 12:58, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
> There's a note on that page that some apps can now be downloaded from
> the marketplace, but it's important to realise that the marketplace
> app itself is one such binary-only app that you can't legally get
> unless it came with your phone.
>
> The
On 26/04/12 11:53, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Samuel writes:
>
> Chris, are you ordering one? I get annoyed with online stores that
> insist I create an account in order merely to buy something, and
> ZaReason appears to be yet another one of those.
No, only interested in a netbook at the moment.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:33:12 Russell Coker wrote:
>
>> Google has a set of binary-only proprietary apps for Android which
>> can only be installed by a hardware vendor who satisfies some
>> Google conditions.
>
> That appears to no long
On 26 April 2012 11:53, Ben Finney wrote:
> But, CyanogenMod isn't free software, remember; it has a higher
> proportion of free software, but is still very much a non-free operating
> system and AFAIK has all the non-free drivers as Android.
AFAIK, Android itself is 100% open source software, en
Chris Samuel writes:
> Sorry for being so quiet recently and missing meetings, a combination
> of lots of work and some timetable clashes..
No-one is obligated to be chatty or quiet, so no apology necessary :-)
> http://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html
[…]
Chris, are you ordering one? I get annoye
Hi folks,
Sorry for being so quiet recently and missing meetings, a combination
of lots of work and some timetable clashes..
The US company ZaReason who build Linux systems (and are currently
investigating opening a store in New Zealand) have been working on a
fully open Android tablet for some t
On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:33:12 Russell Coker wrote:
> Google has a set of binary-only proprietary apps for Android which
> can only be installed by a hardware vendor who satisfies some
> Google conditions.
That appears to no longer be the case..
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Latest_Versio
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