Dear List,
I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko. I do not know why he left (and it is not my business anyway), but I know since Andy was at Openmoko the kernel side began to form shape, and got things work. (suspend? anyone?) I know that every people is replacable at a company, but show me at least two people who made as much commit/day (and code quality) what Andy did. You cant, because there is no black magic here, no marketing mantra, it is all public and we can see who commits what into the git tree. So you just let go the single most valuable people at kernel side. Nice try. I do not know who is responsible for this desicion but I hope they are not the same "design team" who had fired Rasterman. Oh, and Harald Welte had left Openmoko too, but we never knew the exact details. Who left? At the hardware side: Werner and Joerg at the software side: Mirko and hmm, nobody? Im counting... How long will they stand? If I had enough money I would just hire those people and form a new company and outsource the fabrication to a chinese company (that's exactly what everyone does including apple) and forget about Openmoko (the name was a bad choice anyway ;) I know this letter a bit harsh, but it is intented to address to whom is concerned: Get your head out of your @ss, sit down and think about a bit. You must honor those people who gets the job done! The best would be just hire back those valueable people, and work out how they want to work. Even if they want to form a new (software) company, to make sure this situation will never happen again. I always wanted to buy the next model of openmoko, but I know exactly, if it has bugs (and surely it will), never or really slowly will be fixed (as the current(=everyone gets fired) situation shows). And if it will have hardware bugs, they will be never fixed by Openmoko (as the company), and I can just hope that some people offer *their free time and knowledge* and fix the problem UNOFFICIALLY (unless they did not get until fired). Can you imagine where we were today without Andy and Rasterman? I surely can: an unofficial/unsupported qtextended with an unoptimized 2.6.22 kernel. All those nice things came from these (fired) people. I'm afraid of the future. Best regards, Laszlo _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
