Jeremy G wrote: > I would be so disappointed if the OpenMoko devs gave up. Huh? I hadn't heard any indication anyone was thinking of doing so...
> Don't get me > wrong, I'm excited about Qtopia on the Neo, but I'm more interested in > having options. I'm the type of user who loves to play with distros > on my computers; being able to swap mobile OSes from OpenMoko to > Qtopia to Sun's Java-based OS and back again is a nerdy, wet dream. > > I for one am thrilled to have an actually working, open source phone, and am finding the Qtopia distro to do that. I was actually showing OpenMoko to a Windows tech head friend here on Sunday evening, and when I saw him again this morning with the same Neo but using a completely new OS, he was clearly starting to get interested. Especially when I showed him the key/lock thingy. But I also can't wait for the OpenMoko stuff to reach the point of usability, and will most definitely install it again when it's more stable (and probably a few times before then, too). Two complete distributions you can install and run on the same hardware? Both free? (not counting Sun since I can't get my paws on that one...) That's the real revolution here, and I would say this proves Sean's point of doing this in the first place... Qtopia came just in time, too--my old phone pretty much died a couple days ago--it works about half the time, cuts people off all the time when I flip it open, and I was having to consider (shudder) buying another phone since OpenMoko wasn't quite ready for day-to-day use. -- John Locke "Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems" published by Charles River Media, June 2004 http://www.freelock.com _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
