[GRLUG] WebOS for HP machines

[Ron Lauzon]

With their Gen7 devices, Archos released a firmware version that was 
wide open. But if you use it:
1. You couldn't go back to the closed version.
2. You didn't get any of the Archos software (like the video player).
The reason for this (according to Archos) was the license agreements for 
the codecs that it wanted to use.

But it did leave you with a wide open Android tablet to do whatever you 
wanted with.

I'm not sure if they provided that with their latest Gen8 tablets yet.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:13 AM, John-Thomas Richards 
<jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
>> Archos makes Linux devices that are proprietary.  All software that runs
>> on them must have a digital signature in order for the hardware to allow
>> it to run.  All the code is available though the digital signature is
>> not.  Not enough people care or it would have been cracked long ago.
>> It's a shame, too.  I have one of their portable video devices and I
>> must say it is quite amazing in its quality.  However, I cannot do
>> anything with it that Archos won't let me do.


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