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$280,000 !
Well, that works :-) Never heard of Smartisan, checking out their phones now.
If they are mandated by the PRC government to install spyware on all their phones... maybe you should reconsider that.
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Sign me up too! But to be honest, the problem with Android is not the Linux kernel but the fact that most phones were never designed to be continuously updated.
Actually Linux is a very poor choice when a product depends on out of tree binary blobs to operate. The lack of stable driver ABIs and APIs are a real problem for long term maintenance. I'm really surprised that the BSDs aren't a much bigger player in the embedded space.
Yes, but the real problem is the code source operating system that runs the cellular baseband.
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#44Surprise surprise, no donations from any of the big VC firms, including YC. Freeloaders.
I'd really like it if VC/incubators etc. would set up a donation system where they give X$ to projects that are used by their funded companies. I also wouldn't mind seeing an equivalent to the YC-nonprofit program specifically dedicated to the development of interesting FLOSS software (or the support of existing projects).
At the very least I'd be interested in seeing an overview of the various FLOSS code that is used by every YC batch (maybe such a list exists?).
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#45I wonder if their Smartisan OS is OpenBSD-based
No, and a little yes. Their phones are Android based, but Androids libc is OpenBSD based: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140506132000
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#46Background: Smartisan is an Android phone maker in China. Smartisan fans pay for admission tickets to attend Smartisan's new product release events, and Smartisan donates the ticket sales to an open source project. So far they've donated to OpenSSL ($160k), OpenBSD (CA$280k), and OpenResty (pending approval). Edit: IIRC, Smartisan's first donation to OpenSSL happened right after HeartBleed.
They donated $320k in two batches to OpenSSL in 2014. Is the $160k you mention for this year? Do you have a source for the exact amount? The PR News wire bit does not mention the exact sums per org.
I went back and checked the video for the latest release event in October 2016. Smartisan collected about 2 million RMB (Chinese Yuan) in ticket sales. They also donated another 1 million RMB originally for Smartisan Open Source Foundation (its own charity arm). So that's about 3 million RMB in total donated to OpenSSL and OpenBSD.
For its December 2015 event, Smartisan tried to donate ticket sales to OpenResty, but OpenResty could not legally accept the donation due to complicated Chinese laws governing non-profit organizations. So the money is still in Smartisan's bank account and pending regulatory approval.
For its 2014 event, Smartisan donated 1 million RMB to OpenSSL.
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So we should expect Chinese backdoors in OpenBSD too?
I really do hope this is sarcasm, hard to detect over text.
One thing I've learnt about this world is that no one will do something for you just for the mere joy of doing it.
There's always costs/benefits analysis involved.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
They donated $320k in two batches to OpenSSL in 2014. Is the $160k you mention for this year? Do you have a source for the exact amount? The PR News wire bit does not mention the exact sums per org.
I went back and checked the video for the latest release event in October 2016. Smartisan collected about 2 million RMB (Chinese Yuan) in ticket sales. They also donated another 1 million RMB originally for Smartisan Open Source Foundation (its own charity arm). So that's about 3 million RMB in total donated to OpenSSL and OpenBSD. For its December 2015 event, Smartisan tried to donate ticket sales to OpenResty, but…
> For its 2014 event, Smartisan donated 1 million RMB to OpenSSL.
They donated 2 million RMB, see https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2014-Dece...
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I went back and checked the video for the latest release event in October 2016. Smartisan collected about 2 million RMB (Chinese Yuan) in ticket sales. They also donated another 1 million RMB originally for Smartisan Open Source Foundation (its own charity arm). So that's about 3 million RMB in total donated to OpenSSL and OpenBSD. For its December 2015 event, Smartisan tried to donate ticket sales to OpenResty, but…
> For its 2014 event, Smartisan donated 1 million RMB to OpenSSL. They donated 2 million RMB, see https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2014-Dece...
My bad. I only knew one of the donations. Anyway, I'm asking a friend at Smartisan and see if their PR could release a detailed list of past donations.
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#50Reminded me that I forgot to donate to them this quarter :)