Watch this space. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Whitby Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 7:07 PM To: Sean Moss-Pultz Cc: OpenMoko Subject: Sean: Please authorise the release of GTA01 schematics
Sean, Now that the FreeRunner is selling like hotcakes, and your hardware and software teams must focus on it to ensure that it succeeds in the market, and the GTA01 Neo1973 is no longer in production or being sold by Openmoko or its distributors, surely it's the perfect time to release the GTA01 hardware schematics? This would send a clear message to the community and the whole mobile ecosystem that Openmoko is a company that doesn't leave it's customers in the lurch when it brings out a replacement product like closed ecosystem companies do, but that Openmoko is a company that wants it's customers to continue to impact the material world with *all* of it's products - past, present and future - for many years into the future. Allow the amateurs to continue to have the distinct advantage over the professionals even years after the professionals have moved onto the next piece of hardware. Imagine a world where new uses for 10 year old Openmoko hardware are still being found, because the schematics for previous generation products are always released when Openmoko ceases to produce or sell that product. Imagine how much wider the impact of Openmoko can be if older products are not thrown in the bin due to lack of information availabe to repair them, but are instead repaired by people in the community or amateur ecosystem and then put back into service to continue to spread the word about the clear advantage that open source has over the closed ecosystem. Sean, please release the hardware schematics and pcb layout and component placements for the GTA01. Let the GTA01 run free and continue to impact the material world. Respectfully, -- Rod Whitby _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community