Battery charging "logic"
Battery charging "logic"
Posted Oct 24, 2009 10:14 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Battery charging "logic" by forthy
Parent article: Maemo Summit 2009: Fremantle, Harmattan, and N900
The people who sell those circuits also claim that they are protected for
health and safety reasons: if they released the code and someone changed
it and a battery exploded...
health and safety reasons: if they released the code and someone changed
it and a battery exploded...
... and that's why nobody ever uses Linux or free software in
life-or-death situations. They rely on reliable code from vendors who can
be sued for endangering life and limb, like Microsoft.
(But perhaps that's not entirely 100% accurate.)
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