[Novalug] Android tablet from Walmart

William Morse wmorse@americancouncils.org
Wed Jul 24 08:47:40 EDT 2013


"At that price, you can be almost certain that this device violates GPL. "

I'm intrigued by this comment, but can't figure out why it should be so. Derek, can you spell it out for the slow to catch on?

-William Morse

From: novalug-bounces@calypso.tux.org [mailto:novalug-bounces@calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Derek LaHousse
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 12:40 PM
To: Phil Shapiro
Cc: novalug
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Android tablet from Walmart

I'd expect this is an Allwinner A10 tablet.  The processor speed looks like it, anyway.  Do note, it has 512 MB of RAM, and 4G of Flash Storage.  Not 4 GB of RAM.
Allwinner A10 is not in mainline, not yet.  At that price, you can be almost certain that this device violates GPL.

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro@his.com<mailto:pshapiro@his.com>> wrote:

Wow, this was at the top of Hacker News and then vanished as quickly.  Hmmm,
maybe Walmart employees voted it up -- or somesuch.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/XELIO-7-Tablet-With-4GB-Memory/23709345

                   phil


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