On 1/22/07 5:28 PM, "Milan Votava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Never has this project been about exploiting people. If you ready _any_ of >> our documents you will find that we're trying to create an open ecosystem >> for the mobile industry. Sure I hope this will make us money. Otherwise I >> would have neither A) the credit or B) the financial resources to go on >> pursuing my dreams. >> >> -Sean > > (sorry for my English) > > Don't get me wrong. I like (and share) your idea and I will try to be > among the first wave of people who will buy the device (if I will be > allowed after my post ;-) ) and start to develop for it. Then why claim that I'm trying to exploit people? > The only problem I have as a developer with the project is it's real > identity. Today in the time of a 'new' internet economy is becoming > very common to use communities as a part of a business plan and > camouflage this step as another open source geeky projects (like the > ones hosted on sourceforge etc). While I have no problem to invest my > energy and free time to work on these enthusiastic projects I will > be(maybe as a only one in this group) more careful to do the same for > the project where my position will be reduced to become a member of > an external workforce (from the perspective of you or the company > behind it) who is not even on a payroll. I fear that this is getting into a "Free Will" type argument. Nobody's holding a gun to your head and saying "Develop for OpenMoko or your dead." What you do with our code is your choice. That's what GPL is all about. > I don't see anything arrogant on my post and I consider my question > as a legitimate one in the context of a really open community. I now understand that English is not your native tongue. Please forgive me directness, being a foreigner myself, I understand what it's like to use the wrong words unintentionally ;-) Exploit" _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
