If you're about Macromedia Flash (er, now Adobe), isn't it closed source?
The neo has a closed source real time OS running the GSM part... As for flash, you do have tools : see http://osflash.org/projects Of course you won't have heavy Flash 9 with supercowpowers, but it's way enough for widgets...
And well, flash is never fast - due to it's nature it is very CPU-intensive.
Do you really need power for displaying a digg feed? Check out the chumby's examples, they really show simple yet efficient gadgets (ok, these two words don't go along :p)...
This link unfortunately requires me to login to get it working. I hope this is not a site advertising?
I registered. And after registration, you can download the Linux source, download the hardware blueprints, etc... I'm 80% sure that lots of people following this list kept an eye on it too.
I'm stated my point of view.Personally, I will never buy "open" phone where UI toolkit is heavily based on closed source thing and requiring me to buy proprietary Adobe app to create\change UI parts.
Hey, calm down :) I didn't speak of a flash UI, but using flash as webwidget display engine. I'm sure that the chumby's guys didn't do the choice without thinking of these consequences...
That's hardly in open source spirit.
Ok, they chose a non-OSS-spirit technology, but what's the open source flash counterpart again? Animated SVG ? Or, AJAX+DHTML requiring a webcore port... Yeah.
Of course this is my own private opinition and it is safe to ignore it.
This goes for me too :) Florent _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
