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Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row (Jem Report)Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row (Jem Report)Posted Oct 10, 2006 16:22 UTC (Tue) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)In reply to: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row (Jem Report) by ca9mbu Parent article: Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row (Jem Report)
often the so called "specification" contains a lot of things not relevant to driver writers. It's easier and cheaper to just put those under NDA than to pay a docwriter to completely overhaul a 100 page document... in addition it's sometimes not even entirely clear what info exactly is needed for the driver.
you make it sound "easy" to have a good driver documentation that you can just release. Reality is different often....
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Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row (Jem Report) Posted Oct 10, 2006 18:09 UTC (Tue) by ca9mbu (subscriber, #11098) [Link] Sorry, arjan, I didn't mean to come across as thinking it's "easy" at all. It's hard enough for me to write proper documentation for the code I write. I can't imagine what it is like to have to document hardware, never having been involved in that field. My question obviously shows that lack of experience, I guess. It just seemed ironic that the documentation is only being released under NDA, but being used for software that was obviously going to be made public, hence the information it contained would be disclosed, albeit in a slightly different format.
Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row (Jem Report) Posted Oct 11, 2006 9:51 UTC (Wed) by broonie (subscriber, #7078) [Link] Sometimes you end up with things like implementation details of the chips that the vendors don'twant too public mixed in with the documentation on how to program the chip, especially if the manual isn't really intended to become public but the need has come along over time.
You can also find that a vendor with NDAs with other people or with secret information of its own
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