On 1/27/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
More importantly (and very relevantly to this list) you can't compete for consumers on a basis of "Not as good, but _more free_." If completely open phones are going to achieve any sort of dominance, then the same kind of work will have to go into project to support the capabilities that consumers want.
Exactly - the one bonus that OpenMoko receives, in addition to the number of developers, is that we're not tied to any Corporate restrictions in design, contract or politically restricted technology - new software features 'saved up' for the next marketing phase.
More likely, this will prompt other phone manufacturers to try to find ways to compete with the iPhone in as reasonable a time as possible. Some of those ways will likely be based on Linux, and will likely wind up being a mix of proprietary and open source software, but the net outcome will be that there will be a larger amount of more capable open source software available in the product space, and more open source software being used in more devices like the NEO.
In evolutionary terms, this is a favourable environment for open vs closed software models. All free software written on open or selectively open hardware platforms, strengthens free software. Richard _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
