Allwinner: "We Are Taking Initiative Actions Internally"

[asdfblah]

They should be taking "Initiative Actions" Externally...

[rohcQaH]

Because non-chinese copyright holders suing a chinese company is not a trivial thing to do. The lawsuit would need to be filed in china and be processed according to chinese copyright law - which is very different from ours.
Best they could do is try to ban the import of allwinner products in europe/america, but I'm not sure if allwinner is strong enough in these markets to care.

[RoninDusette]

Because allwinner will win?

I am serious, though. Why have a license that no one is going to enforce? It literally makes it worthless.

[Timeus]

Allwinner is in trouble

I just saw news from yesterday that there are new $149 chromebooks based on Rockchip RK3288 coming soon. And also there's brand new chromebit which is under $100 using the same chips.

Last time I saw another news saying that TV boxes chose rock chip over allwinner due to allwinner's poor performance of 4k decoding.

I think $149 chromebooks are over kill considering the price of development boards are around the same price range.

Chromebook rocks.

[RoninDusette]

I seriously don't know why there is not a lawsuit being filed. What is the point of the license if the only thing people can do is complain about it being violated? That makes it useless. The reason that they keep doing it is because there have been no legal ramifications being brought toward them.

[lejeczek]

lawyers lawyer! free software lawyer...

... they need. And were is Collabora?
we need to ban all products from these irresponsible heartless mindless Chinese devils.

[TheBlackCat]

Actually, this is quite telling: Allwinner considers they have a marketing issue.

The fact that they consider this a marketing issue rather than a legal issue is indeed quite telling.

[adler187]

Allwinner taking things seriously? Hahahaha! Nice April fools!

[bug77]

Actually, this is quite telling: Allwinner considers they have a marketing issue.

[willmore]

Tonedeaf

Okay, so you have a bad relationship to the community so you promise improvements on April 1st? *facepalm*