litl

[Jeremy Yuille-2]

hi all - anyone had a look at the litl?
http://www.litl.com/
if so - how's the os?
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[pauric]

the 'os' is linux, you can read a lot more about it here
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/11/04/the-litl-computer-that-could-boston-startup-tries-a-new-take-on-the-home-internet-appliance/

Its a great idea and maybe the concept's time has finally come but
they have their work cut out for them at $699 a device
http://www.amazon.com/litl-webbook-internet-computer-home/dp/B002QALZ9W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1257776691&sr=8-2

When on the one hand someone could hackintosh a Dell for $300
http://gizmodo.com/5389166/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-10v-into-the-ultimate-snow-leopard-netbook
Or wait for the iTablet/iReader thing for ~$100 more.  Either way, it
looks great for granny or the kids but given the financial landscape
and no marketing - a tough sell even if its a fantastic design.

Maybe someone could answer this question.  If they've used linux are
the obliged to return Litl's presentation layer back to the
community? That would be very neat.

thanks /pauric


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[Vicky Teinaki]

Though they've kept pretty quiet about it, Cooper was involved in the design
of it: http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/11/yay_for_litl.html

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:32 PM, pauric <radiorental@...> wrote:

> the 'os' is linux, you can read a lot more about it here
>
> http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/11/04/the-litl-computer-that-could-boston-startup-tries-a-new-take-on-the-home-internet-appliance/
>
> Its a great idea and maybe the concept's time has finally come but
> they have their work cut out for them at $699 a device
>
> http://www.amazon.com/litl-webbook-internet-computer-home/dp/B002QALZ9W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1257776691&sr=8-2
>
> When on the one hand someone could hackintosh a Dell for $300
>
> http://gizmodo.com/5389166/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-10v-into-the-ultimate-snow-leopard-netbook
> Or wait for the iTablet/iReader thing for ~$100 more.  Either way, it
> looks great for granny or the kids but given the financial landscape
> and no marketing - a tough sell even if its a fantastic design.
>
> Maybe someone could answer this question.  If they've used linux are
> the obliged to return Litl's presentation layer back to the
> community? That would be very neat.
>
> thanks /pauric
>
>
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[Calum Benson-2]

They're only obliged to share the code for any part of the Linux code
(or any other code with a GPL or GPL-style licence) that they've
modified.  Which is potentially none of it all, if their code is
written from scratch and runs on top of an unmodified Linux kernel.

Of course, they could have chosen to licence whatever they've
written themselves under the GPL as well, in which case they would
have to share the code, but I've read nothing to suggest that's the
case.


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[Calum Benson-2]

In fact, just checked their website, which tells you how to get the
open source components of their software (which I'm guessing is
mostly the Mozilla-based browser bits):

http://litl.com/legal/#source

It specifically states that "source code to our proprietary
interface is not open source".


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[pauric]

Thanks for clearing that up for me Calum.


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