On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 6:46 AM Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
There are dozens of arm sbs right now that are crippled mainly due to Mali graphics. A lot of them would be very useful for stuff that e.g. the rpi doesn't do like cheap nas. Just saying.
yes, i agree. the thing is... *sigh*... percentage-wise, the people you're referring to (those that would actually put arm SBCs to different purposes) are an absolutely tiny fraction of the overall market. an important *strategic* fraction, nonetheless.
the lesson there is one from HTC's products absolutely tanking after they neglected to listen to a tiny vocal minority on strategic (high-prominence) forums like xda-developers.com. when going to "buy product", anyone *not* technical of course does a google search. if the high-ranking google pages, not controlled by HTC, are filled with complaints "this product is shit! it doesn't have a keyboard like our favourite predecessor does!!!" then the non-techies aren't gonna buy...
and it's the same here. so... yes, reverse-engineering MALI will have a much larger strategic impact on purchases of ARM-based products than people realise...
and that's what deeply concerns me: by raising USD $1m, this campaign is empowering ARM to continue in their highly and deeply unethical behaviour, such as fucking with libv's livelihood.
l.