[ale] The very closed LeapPad uses very Free Software

[alan at alanlee.org]

I'm a bit confused.  Did you get the sources to the free software or not?
 
-Alan



On November 13, 2011 at 11:23 PM Richard Bronosky <Richard at Bronosky.com> wrote:

> My wife insisted on buying a couple of these LeapPads for the kids
> Christmas. (I wanted to buy some Android tablets) In preparation I
> wanted to start converting the home movies that they love watching. I
> contacted LeapFrog because I could find no info on the supported
> formats. Well, it turns out that they only let the device play movies
> that they sell you. We know all the reasons for this and it ought to
> piss us all off.
>
> Well, I saw that they are using GPL software so I request a copy of
> the source. It's every enlightening as to what software drives this
> thing. I don't think it gets me any closer to putting home movies on
> these things, but it is good to know what it is capable of. The
> goodies include those listed below.
>
> What really pisses me off most about this is that I grew up in a coal
> mining community (which Diane Sawyer once did a special on:
> http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=6845770&page=1#.TsCP_s23DYp ) and
> I wouldn't have escaped if it weren't for Free Software. Now I'm
> witnessing a Freedom oppressing company exploit Free Software to
> educate our children. I don't like the message they are teaching.
>
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> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/gdbserver
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/gpio-control
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/i2c-utils
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/init
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/iperf
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/kbtool
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/lfd
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/lfpkg
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/libpng
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/lzo
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/lzop
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/mtd-utils-2
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/oe-bin
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/optimization
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/oss-utils
> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/otp-write
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> LF-Linux-2503-20110602-1237/packages/wifi-USB-8786
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>
> --
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