Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row
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| Marvell is unwilling to freely supply hardware documentation so that
| programmers can create device drivers that properly interface with
| its wireless chips, and beyond that, Marvell also refuses to allow
| OpenBSD and other free software operating systems to freely distribute
| firmware binaries that are necessary to use Marvell wireless devices.
| So why, then, was it chosen for the OLPC project, which claims to
| "support open source?"
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http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286
Related:
Intel: Only "Open" for Business
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| These vendors often want a quiet private discussion, because in a
| quiet private discussion they can continue to dismiss the requests and in
| the end do absolutely nothing. They do not want a noisy public
| discussion, because then they look bad. But they DESERVE TO LOOK BAD,
| because they are being bad to those who bought their hardware!
|
| [...]
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| By withholding, Intel is being an Open Source fraud.
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| [...]
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| So let's win back the rights to run the hardware we purchased.
|
| Please feel free to let other open source communities know about this
| matter. Thank you.
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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060930232710&mode=expanded
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