Re: [Hampshire] Yet another UMPC

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Author: Tony Whitmore
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Yet another UMPC
Damian Brasher wrote:
> Captain Haddock WROTE:
>> Got this on BBc today...
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7425099.stm
>>
> Note:
>
> "In an effort to grab a slice of the market Via has announced a new
> hardware design for low-cost laptop computers, called OpenBook, making it
> available under an open source license."
>
> Which is also interesting - does anyone here us Open architecture
> licensing or know where I can find out more?


AIUI it's because they released the designs for the reference
implementation under a CC license rather than the hardware itself being
open. Unless that means the same thing at some point.

Tony