Am So 20. Juli 2008 schrieb Rod Whitby: > 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
PCB-layout is a little difficult to release - this is a multilayer PCB. Component placement 01/02 TBD. Schematics 01 TBD. Needs some prettyprinting first. Also there are NDA-issues with TI Calypso. Those parts of schematics we mustn't release you may find elsewhere though (heard sth about Chinese books on cellphones ;) Stay assured we won't forget on GTA01 owners. cheers jOERG
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