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pjc50 on July 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+

While we're here, I'd like to call attention to the fact that the Pi foundation has hired someone to opensource the X display driver, addressing one of the common criticisms about openness:

http://anholt.livejournal.com/44239.html

Narishma on July 14, 2014 | [–]

They hired him to create an open source driver, not to open source the current one.

nodata on July 14, 2014 | [–]

We need an "(up|down)vote but derail/off-topic" button. Upvoted anyway.

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