> > The amount of applications available for the phone is not the goal; > the goal is to have a 100% free software phone. >
That is abosulutely not the goal. The goal actually IS a "[large] ammount of applications available for the phone". If someone from OM chimes in and says OSS-only really is the goal, I'll buy a Palm Treo tomorrow and never look at this project again. This way of thinking about the neo is a microcosm of the problem with the linux community in general. The linux community *overall* quietly wants linux to be a walled-off OSS only world. They have never quite been comfortable with commercial apps running on the linux platform. And then they turn around and say things like "Why do people still run windows? It's such a crappy OS, it's buggy and slow and expensive and this and that. Oh well, it must be marketting and monoply I guess." It's not marketing. It's not monopoly. It's the applications. The reason people run OSes is for the applications. No one cares about the OS. The OS is just the stage, not the show, it's irrelevant. I can't blame Adobe for not supporting linux, given the massive fragmentation, the attitude against commercial software, and the too-little-too-late feeble attempts to be commercial-friendly like this: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4586903228.html The appeal of openmoko isn't the linux, it's the DIY, homebrew, third-party-application-friendliness. The goal is lots of apps. If that gets severed by more people of your thinking, and instead becomes "only-OSS-third-party-application-friendliness", then we've got linux all over again, and suffer the same marginalized fate of 0.39% (desktop market) after a full 15 years. To your earlier posts- it's called "Copyright" for a reason. "Copy". "Right". As in, The Right To Copy something. It's neither legal or ethichal to make copies of copywritten material. It's not "sharing files with friends". (I have my own separate set of ethics regarding music copying but that's just me, and this email is too long already, so that will be for another time.) Finally I agree with 95% what David Schlesinger has said here so far (I only veer about Apple), so ditto to you, David S, if you read down this far. m _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
