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MediaTek have not been historically known for engaging with the open-source community, documenting their chipsets, and complying with the GPL, to put it mildly.
by qrmn 12y ago
MediaTek have not been historically known for engaging with the open-source community, documenting their chipsets, and complying with the GPL, to put it mildly.
Unless anyone knows that's changed in recent years?
- vidarh 12y agoThat may be so, but there's hardly any CPU around you can even boot without binary blobs of some form these days. E.g. consider the massive pain the Coreboot people are going through to get anything reasonably open out of Intel. I would prefer more open hardware and will vote with my wallet if there's something open of reasonable price/performance, but I choose to be pragmatic about it. In this space, even getting something I can run a non-locked down Linux on is an improvement.