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GPL v3

GPL v3

Posted Aug 23, 2012 13:26 UTC (Thu) by miahfost (subscriber, #51602)
In reply to: GPL v3 by dlang
Parent article: GENIVI: moving an industry to open source

But this will likely happen on tablets, game consoles, phablets, etc. The RSE (Rear Seat Entertainment unit) is likely only going to show movies and the like, not be a full blown computer.


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GPL v3

Posted Aug 24, 2012 2:27 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

"show movies and the like" now includes doing things like being able to play games.

besides, it's easier to just install a plain android device in the car for this, it handles so many formats, functions, networks, etc without any development effort.

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