On Tue, 30 May 2017 03:27:19 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:37 PM, David Niklas doark@mail.com wrote:
Prior to purchasing the Pocket CHIP I read their docs and kickstarter page. See this (their kickstarter page says similar): https://docs.getchip.com/chip.html#is-chip-open-source-where-are-the-docs Are they flat out lying?
absolutely not. absolutely everything (with the exception of MALI) has been available for the A13 core for... like... 4 years.
The wifi requires a binary blob according to this thread (unless I'm remembering wrongly).
getting this through to people's thick skulls, thanks to the high noise-to-signal ratio, is getting frankly a little tiresome, i don't mind admitting.
l.
Well, when you say "opensource hardware" most people, including myself, think "Oh, a completely opensource down to the last transistor machine!!!" When i first read the slashdot page on the C.H.I.P. I really thought that that is what they meant... Same story with eoma. Which only makes sense, since, taking spamassasin as an example, if you get an "opensource" program you expect not only every line available for viewing but also the docs and mass-check rules to be "opensource", which they are.
No offence intended luke, but when I see people trying to "Opensource" something I am often times disappointed. I know that you and others work very hard but it looks, to me, to be a half done job almost all the time and I mean with software too, because it tends to lack tests to verify it's functionality and docs to train the coming generations, myself numbering among them.
Thanks, David