2008/11/14 Tim Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 >
Up for this request Wolfgang :)
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