On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Wolfgang Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Openmoko actually has learnt a lot from this. First we have learnt to > not trust high-level promises as much as before. > In fact I would go as far as saying that going forward, we will not > trust any promises about 'we will open this up later' anymore. > Either it's open and documented at the time we make the decision to > use those chips, or we look elsewhere. > I believe that's what our customers want.
Agreed, and awesome. > We have a long way to go to come out with kick-ass open phone > hardware, but if our community doesn't loose faith and continues to do > development together with us, we'll get there. The momentum we have > built with the Freerunner is awesome. Please continue to buy > Freerunners and to develop for it, same is happening internally. The > next phones will build on top of the free platform we have built > together, the technology investment will carry over. *crosses fingers and hopes* > Having said that, if someone wants to seriously develop for the glamo, > please get in touch with me and we will find a legally correct way to > extend the smedia documentation to you. > In fact we have done that in a few cases before already, but I'm not > sure how much actual codes have come out of that. I think very > little ;-) > So we need some really serious coders that don't mind a tough challenge. I am not a skilled developer, but I would be more than happy to organize, and participate in a traditional clean room re-implementation of the documentation. As a GTA02 owner, as a founding member of the Open Graphics Project, as a Director of the Open Hardware Foundation, I believe I have the resources to accomplish such a task. I'd love to try. Can we make it happen? --tim _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community