On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Stone Mirror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "At the Spring 2008 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, Dan Kohn > led a panel discussion consisting of leaders in the Linux Mobile arena > including Sean Moss-Pultz of OpenMoko, Derek Speed of Intel's Moblin > project, Andrew Shikiar of the Limo Foundation, David "Lefty" > Schlesinger of ACCESS and Eric Chu from Google/Open Handset Alliance > to discuss the current happenings in Linux Mobile and what it means > for the future." > > Watch the video at http://www.linux-foundation.org/events/node/39 > A few comments on this video: Some of the claims which Eric Chu makes on this video are quite interesting. He claims that current open source projects were "too desktop-oriented", without explaining what he means by that. He's evidently unaware that there's nothing particularly "desktop-oriented" about the GNOME technologies, with the exception of the GNOME desktop application itself, and that numerous phones (now fewer than eighteen of them shown at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona) have shipped using precisely these "too desktop-oriented" components. He also appeals, repeatedly, to Google's "sharp commercial focus". Evidently he feels that companies like Samsung, Motorola, and LG are charities or something. Eric went on, the following day, to tell the members of the GNOME Mobile Initiative that "open source projects didn't ship according to a schedule". He's apparently also unaware that GNOME ships a release every six months, like clockwork, as does Ubuntu. I'm still curious as to why Google chose not to be a participating member of the mobile open source community, as opposed to reinventing wheels and going it alone. Clearly the reasons given don't hold water. Does someone from Google want to try coming up with some more persuasive ones? -- 鏡石 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
