Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > > I don't see our statements as conflicting. Harald is our lead system > level architect. His job is to focus on his task at hand and deliver a > stable, high performance system. He's trying to "give the geeks what > they want first." >
Which is great, the concern was around the forward-looking statements that there was no interest in a market beyond the niche of people who want an open-source 'phone. Why it was a concern is below... [...] > We want to build _the_ best open mobile device in the world. 100% open. > > Only when we reach this point will our strengths be appreciated by the > mainstream user. > I understand the thinking here, but the mainstream user will neither know nor care about open source. If a 'phone is available that fixes a lot of the existing hideousness within UIs, if a 'phone is available that allows people to do what they want with it, if a 'phone is available that allows them to make calls at the best prices without suffering the whims of the network operators, *that* is when it will be appreciated by the mainstream user. Of course that I understand that open source is the way that openmoko is going to use to enable these things, and also that without a solid foundation it won't be possible to do so, but there needs to be some focus on getting there rather than just having a cool 'phone. And although we wouldn't expect to sit back for someone else to make this a reality we would hope for support where required. > Mark my words, we will make an end user mobile device of which this > world has never seen before. > Now that is something that I think we can all agree on. And many thanks for the response, it has renewed my enthusiasm in the project (along with finally getting the *&"!* build system to build and include my binaries in the image :)). > -Sean > Cheers, Jim. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community