> Sounds a lot like looking after a laptop rather than using a phone. > I've already written about how I like the FreeRunner because it's > *not* a laptop:
basically, yes. but that's probably due to the limited experience. i for one know palm pda/smartphone and laptop/pc -- according to the spec the om resembles a pc rather than a pda/smartphone so i more or less consciously shape my expectations after that. but i am not sure if that in any way makes it incomopatible with your ideas expressed there. > I've also posted twice (I think - I found one one on Google) to this > list about how it might be fruitful to consider the Bitforst security > model as developed for the OLPC project: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bitfrost > > Anyone with me on that one? sounds good. it's not that i think the unix/linux way is the best ever possible -- it's only that i think security _is_ a key feature, how we achieve that feature is a matter open to discussion. if the olpc folks got it working for childs it means it will work for average joe as well ... _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

