On Monday 27 August 2007 15:38, Giles Jones wrote:
> I'm in Europe and the greenphone is about twice the cost. You have to
> add in the price of the SDK and licences too. It's a really
> unimpressive deal.
Again, if you're a business and developing commercial software, the cost of a
SDK means nothing to you - quite the contrary of the case if you are a
tinkerer-open phone enthusiast. If you look closely at the licenses, you'll
see that you only really need to pay for licenses and SDKs if you plan on
developing proprietary, NON-GPL phone applications or you need professional
support - nothing wrong with that either, IMO.
Apparently, costwise some parts of Europe are quite a bit farther than others
(which is obviously not OpenMoko's fault but UPS's and the lack of an EU
dealership). I would have liked to compare the prices for Antarctica (just
for kicks), but the ordering script dies for most of the more 'exotic'
countries.
Greenphone Community SDK
* Development device: $695 USD
* License fee (GNU GPL v2.0): $0 USD
* Total cost: $695 USD + shipping/handling ($25 in my case) and applicable
taxes ($0 in my case) = $720 USD
OpenMoko GTA01-phase1
* Development device: $300 USD
* License fee (GNU GPL v2.0): $0 USD
* Total cost: $300 USD + shipping/handling ($140 in my case) and
applicable taxes ($145 in my case) = $585 USD
That's a precisely 100 Euros of difference, which is hardly twice the cost...
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