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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by ducktective on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:20AM (#24918995)
So this is not actually kinda advertisement to raise aware-ness on the chip? I mean if the manufacturer is sponsoring this giveaway, why didn't they release the sources in the first place?
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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by oriesdan on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:45AM (#24919292)
I would be very funny to discover they lose their source code :)

A more serious reason I could think of : maybe pine64 is trying to convince them to do just that, and this contest is to show them there is public interest (pure speculation from me, of course).

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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by Avamander on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:42AM (#24920073)
Pine64 and Bouffalo are two different entities. The former tries to ship open-source compatible hardware, the latter manufactures the chip.
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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by ducktective on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:07PM (#24920428)
So Pine64 is itself giving away 1000 pcs of the board? Assuming 5$ for each board, this challenge costs them 5k...
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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by Avamander on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:52PM (#24921908)
Yep
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