Am Dienstag, 30. Juni 2015 10:34:59 UTC+2 schrieb Luc Verhaegen: > It is time to extend the negative marketing campaign to some of > Allwinners customers, and truly hit Allwinner where it hurts.
While I do think that a large-scale boycott could really make a change here and force Allwinner to release code and comply with licenses, I also think that the community utterly lacks the means to achieve an effective boycott. Let's face it. The sunxi community is too small to have a considerable impact. Even with the help of sites like Phoronix, you'd still be missing many, many hobbyists and makers who buy cheap Allwinner devices without ever having heard of the community or licencing issues. Many users probably become aware of these issues just after they purchased such a device. And even if they know, it doesn't necessarily mean they care (there are use cases where the current limitations can be ignored). This is just the end-user side. The companies who buy from Allwinner directly, especially those within China, are yet another story which makes it even more unlikely to succeed. Furthermore, if you look around, how many cheap alternatives to the Allwinner ARM devices do you find that come with open and fully released code? Now, I'm not challenging your goals and motivation. You are absolutely right to point out the licensing issues and demand code, docs and compliance to licenses. However, unless you are confident that the call for a boycott will be successful, I think your approach is not helping your case. If you can't hurt them financially, who do you think they'd cooperate with more likely: someone who throws shit at them constantly (exaggerated) or someone, while persistently and repeatingly pointing out the issues, communicates in a constructive and polite way? Cheers, Timo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
