On ke, 2007-04-25 at 08:23 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Florent THIERY writes: > >> If you're about Macromedia Flash (er, now Adobe), isn't it closed > >> source? > > > >The neo has a closed source real time OS running the GSM part... > > OS? It's been said pretty consistently that it's a user-mode daemon.
He's talking GSM, not GPS. The GSM chip indeed has its own proprietary OS. However, that's IMAO a special case and very different from any user-mode software on the SOC side. We want an open GNU/Linux system on this phone. It would be _nice_ to have an open GSM system as well, but not possible at this point. The GSM part is nicely encapsulated as an integrated peripheral providing a standard API. As such it's not of as much openness interest to the application developers and users as the base GNU/Linux OS with its application libraries is. Heck, apparently even Stallman only had a problem with the GPS plugin. -- Mikko J Rauhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Helsinki _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community