(sorry for my english)
I'm subscribed for this this thread for about 6m now. I don't want to
be rude but:
1/ 99% of this thread is about an unrealistic things to be
implemented on a non existent (underpowered) device. Who in the World
cares about things being discussed in this thread? People wants to
use their pones, to make calls, send sms/mms/emails. I'm being tired
to read over and over about these obscure requirements and ideas
posted here. Animations like on an iPod? Buy an iPod!
2/ I believe we are going to be a victims of a huge manipulation.
There is a company like FIC. There are some adventures like Sean who
are looking for their fortune. What's the way? To offer to companies
like FIC a product like Neo with reduced costs. Why the costs are
reduced? It's simple. There is bunch of people around the globe
waiting to spare their time to help. You just have to pretend to be
one of them....
3/ As you can see, the 'openness' of this project is at least in
question. As time goes by, there is more blah blah then some concrete
information. There are some vague information about GTA1/GTA2 but
overall, the entropy is going to 0.
Milan
At 01:02 13.6.2007, Andrew Becherer wrote:
My mother told me to never feed the trolls but when I see an obvious
misrepresentation of the opensource and free software movements I have
to pipe up for posterity and the google cache.
Not to knock the work of people like cr2 (who based on a Google query
is an awesome resource for Linux on proprietary handsets) but
xda-developers.com is an entirely different ball of wax than OpenMoko.
I once had the opportunity to meet with Peter Brown (the executive
director of the Free Software Foundation). Peter told me that one of
the greatest things about Richard Stallman is his role as a reference
point for all of us involved in opensource and free software. We can
each measure how "free" we are based on where we place ourselves as
compared to RMS. He is THE free software benchmark. That said Richard
Stallman stated his only objection to the Neo1973 and OpenMoko was the
closed source GPS code. The Neo1973 and OpenMoko are just about as
free as a phone can be and it is my understanding that the GPS code
can be replaced with free software thereby making it a "free" phone!
Let's compare this to the xda-developers site. Currently on the front
page of xda-developers is the following news item:
"For years and years, xda-developers has offered access to a
collection of ROM images for 'our' phones. These images, often
released by mobile carriers or device resellers, contained a version
of the Microsoft Windows Mobile OS (or one of its predecessors) as
well as customization added by one or more OEMs in the chain."
FIC with its Neo1973 hardware and OpenMoko with free software are
creating a truly open platform. Trading in hacked up images of
proprietary software distributed against the terms of the licensing
agreements isn't the type of freedom of which I would want a point.
Should the Neo and OpenMoko come to pass they will be a true
alternative to proprietary phones. FIC and the all developers who
participate in the development of OpenMoko should be applauded and
remarks such as yours should be ignored.
--
Andrew Becherer
Undergraduate, Computing and Software Systems
University of Washington, Tacoma
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