Hello Mychaela and all >The perspective of a developer is different from that of a (potential) >user.
Yes - very true and I'm commenting now solely as a wannabe user >On the one hand, it is reasonable to expect that when we get >some libre fw working on one of Motorola or Pirelli targets, non- >developer users will likely be content with using just those phones in my case yes, that would satisfy me > >Right now our project is critically dependent on Openmoko devices for >development, and because these devices have fully reached unobtainium >status, we have no possibility of attracting any new developers. I'm not sure that is the case; if another developer came forward, there are many 2nd hand freerunners, mostly I bet gathering dust. Someone would part with one, possibly for delivery charge only, if it was going to a developer. >Thus I feel that the >right course of action for me at this point is to embark on a project >of creating an improved version of GNU PCB with the just-listed PADS- >like capabilities. Comments and suggestions are welcome. It's entirely reasonable for you to take whatever path you wish and I'm talking from a standpoint of ignorance as far as development is concerned. It does seem to me though that working on GNU PCB would be a massive side project of a side project. Will this really move things on further than continuing to struggle with development on the freerunner? Excuse my selfishness, but I start to think now that there will never be a phone that does not suck. On the other hand maybe you working with the gEDA community would lead to an influx of freecalypso developers :-) -- David Matthews [email protected] _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] https://www.freecalypso.org/mailman/listinfo/community
