On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:54 +0000, Richard Franks wrote: > But let us not make things more difficult and ugly by antagonising > the very companies working with FIC on this project in the first > place. I don't see how that can be constructive.
Global Locate is actually creating RIAA's and MPAA's dream of a DRM: they prevent you from getting publicly and freely available ephemeris data (and that is what A-GPS means) into the chip. They want to lock-in the users of their chips into their "OMA SUPL" AGPS servers. They deny you the right to use your own solution. Closed source drivers are a nuissance on an open platform especially when open alternatives do exist. It is a question of community pressure to get FIC either using a different chip or to get Global Locate to open the protocol specs. The good thing is that Sean is an all pro open guy :) Marcus _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
