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Doesn't this mean the the Pi foundation has an incentive to discourage open firmware, since it will eliminate the enforcement for their DRM?
by dTal 5y ago
Doesn't this mean the the Pi foundation has an incentive to discourage open firmware, since it will eliminate the enforcement for their DRM?
- bri3d 5y agoNot really. The firmware is basically protecting itself - the closed source firmware contains proprietary image processing code (ISP) for the camera which Pi Trading paid for, so it's only supposed be used with the Pi Camera. A complete open source re-implementation would either not support ISP, or would include a non-proprietary version of the same or similar code, at which point they shouldn't care.
- monocasa 5y agoThere's also protecting access to the hardware video codecs, in order to account for licensing fees. They might care about that if the MPEG-LA starts being a dick about it.