Re: [free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Samuel
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

Re: [free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Samuel
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

Re: [free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Samuel
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.

Re: [free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Brian May
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

Re: [free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
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

[free-software-melb] ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Samuel
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