LG is shutting down their mobile production

[daniel_mazurkiewicz]

Would be happy if LG open sourced and donated to Pine64 all their work as they are completely shutting down a mobile division. I'm pretty sure that we all could benefit from such a move (LG including).

Here is my petition, feel free to sign it and share it:
https://www.change.org/p/lg-electronics-...n-for-good

[barray]

Would be happy if LG open sourced and donated to Pine64 all their work as they are completely shutting down a mobile division. I'm pretty sure that we all could benefit from such a move (LG including).

A petition to ask them to open source their Android kernel is one thing, but asking them to open source patented software/hardware is not going to happen. Even if they never make another mobile phone ever again, there is too much value in their patents.

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Also, why would they donate all these resources directly to Pine64? Pine64 is interested only in open hardware, why would they support a closed-source platform they have no means to manufacture? If anything you should be asking for this information to be released into the public domain.

[KC9UDX]

In any case, by this point, they already have their plans in concrete, I would expect.

[biketool]

In any case, by this point, they already have their plans in concrete, I would expect.

It never hurts to ask, especially if someone has a personal connection to a company executive, those patents might be most valuable to LG as tax deductible donations to a open source NGO, they can exchange the potential IP value for real cash savings.

[dsimic]

Would be happy if LG open sourced and donated to Pine64 all their work as they are completely shutting down a mobile division. I'm pretty sure that we all could benefit from such a move (LG including).
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I understand your good intentions, but quite frankly, it's all just a pipe dream, unfortunately.