as I was writing up my previous email, a thought occurred to me. for the big name hardware manufacturers, there's a definite benefit to supporting openmoko on thier platforms they intend to release with their proprietary OS's: testing. by releasing the hardware to the embedded community they can find any hardware issues (stinky razr keyboards?) that don't crop up in in-house testing. in reality, they don't even have to release more than a basic driver set... some of us in the community enjoy that particular brand of vodka.
I know FIC is releasing the NEO under a different name as well, could this be a motivation/benefit to them? and the benefit to us is that more Openmoko platform devices are available, there are more on the street... more people who go "what kind of a phone is that" or "how did you use your phone to unlock the door of your car"(come on, that would be such a cool app... anyone up to changing the receiver/transciever for their remote door unlock?) and we have public interest. everybody wins anyways, just a thought that occurred to me -- Jeff O|||||||O _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
