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by av500 11y ago
if everything that somebody from the libav side says here is automatically labelled bitterness and downvoted, maybe you can understand why some are indeed bitter.
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by av500 11y ago
"...and its very difficult to be the leader when one is on one side of this split and the other tries everything to push me out..." that the gist of it, it's always the other side wanting him harm. he never ever acknowleged
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by av500 11y ago
he could have stepped back much earlier
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by av500 11y ago
not that he was likely to go without making a ton of derogatory remarks about the livav split. and if he never liked the leadership role as he claims, he was given ample opportunities to get rid of it.
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Toybox lands in Android AOSP(android.googlesource.com)
2 points by av500 12y ago|1 comments
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#bentgate(twitter.com)
1 points by av500 12y ago|0 comments
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by av500 12y ago
the Pebble does not use e-ink, they use Sharp's "Memory LCD" technology which is a low power black and white LCD.
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by av500 12y ago
see my other comment, you can get the Imagination driver source code under NDA
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by av500 12y ago
we worked with TI OMAP3 and 4 and we had the full source code of the driver stack, it was available under NDA. I am sure Apple has access to the same
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by av500 13y ago
hopefully TI still has enough OMAP3 chips in stock since they shut down the whole OMAP division last year...
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by av500 13y ago
sources close to Google that cannot be named confirm that e.g. Samsung or HTC paid nothing to Microsoft. or rather got all license fees back in terms of Windows Phone marketing kickbacks
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by av500 13y ago
Looking into it. I understand there might be legal issues around Airplay and that Google did something to Chromecast to disallow "unofficial" use cases :(
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by av500 13y ago
Archos developer here, glad that you like the app :)
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by av500 13y ago
and these people are not able to copy/steal the needed driver binary from one of these phones?
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by av500 13y ago
One can always go with the Chinese SoC vendors :)
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by av500 13y ago
there was also the choice not to commit to this SoC unless Qualcomm agrees in writing that Google is allowed to publish factory images and binaries
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by av500 13y ago
the ones that buy Qualcomm chips off the black market?
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Android AOSP maintainer quits(plus.google.com)
328 points by av500 13y ago|227 comments
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by av500 13y ago
I was referring to both, Megaupload and their customers. The customers could have read the ToS that contained no garantees whatsoever that their data would be "safe" in any wax. And for Megaupload using a 3rd party to provide most
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by av500 13y ago
that's what you get when you store data "in the cloud"...
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Nokia is suing HTC, claiming VP8 infringes their patent(fosspatents.com)
3 points by av500 14y ago|0 comments
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by av500 14y ago
Firefox supports H.264 on Linux via the Flash plugin
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Google licenses VP8 patents from MPEG-LA(businesswire.com)
109 points by av500 14y ago|86 comments
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by av500 14y ago
what happened to doing one thing and doing that well? what is next, office documents?
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by av500 14y ago
it has an LTE baseband chip but no amplifiers for the LTE frequency bands, no matching antenna and no LTE royalties paid.
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Raspberry Pi drivers are Not useful(airlied.livejournal.com)
7 points by av500 14y ago|0 comments
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by av500 14y ago
Well, Google even decided to bundle Flash into Chrome, so Flash is far from just being a "fallback" solution to them.
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by av500 14y ago
gstreamer itself will use libavcodec
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by av500 14y ago
A problem for Microsoft? or one by Microsoft? Yes, sure it's caused by Microsoft, but it has to be fixed on the LibreOffice side, since I am sure Microsoft won't do anything about it.
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by av500 14y ago
it does not give Fedora "control over the whole process". It's not only the bootloader that is signed, it's also kernel and modules. And if any of these is compromised, M$ can see that as a threat to a Windows installation on the same PC an

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