Steven Kurylo wrote, on 20/05/08 10:44:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Rod Whitby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
Well, I much appreciate your work and your openness with community,
unfortunately I can't say the same about Openmoko in this occasion since
this should be an Open company and so I'd have appreciated it more if the
decision would have been debated before with developers and active part of
community (= people writing code) in public lists.
I guess the question is whether Openmoko Inc. ever promised that the
contents of the rootfs for the phone that they sell will be determined by
some sort of community consensus.
If I remember correctly, they only promised to provide an open software
platform upon which *you* can create your own personalised rootfs. By
including both toolkits, they have not changed anything you experience with
respect to this promise.
And you'd end up arguing about the colour of the bike shed none stop.
Some decisions openmoko just needs make to deliver us a phone.
For those who didn't pick the reference, the "executive bicycle shed" is
a project listed in the book "Parkinson's Law" that takes forever
while more important issues are decided immediately without forming
commitees.
Arthur.
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