> So what if the company decided to use that money for something you do > not want to be part of, or you think they are throwing away your money > doing stupid things. Well, I think at that moment you should pawn the > product, not endorse it (maybe even publicly denounce it) and then find > another company or product you can be happy with.
that's a constellation you have to cope with in every commercial product (and even in others, too, though you might not measure your investments in terms of money). what's more, with most companies you don't neither have a saying in what the money is spent for nor do you actually get information about what that company plans are at all. the difference with the freerunner is, that you can install what environment you want and that you are not limited by the decisions the company makes after you bought. with the amount of freedom available, openmoko as company in question cannot be supposed to invest in all and every available technology, be it a desktop environment or merely a toolkit, but instead one way has to be chosen. but om having their money on e does not mean, you are forced to use e. if, on the other hand, you demand that you have a saying in what the company does with your money, clinging to the merely ficitional conception of splitting your money in a part for the actual hardware, a part for development done and a part for development to come -- there won't be many things left you could purchase. btw: that whole question is not at all about e or gtk or qt, but what to expect from a frre device -- and that question in turn has been discussed in extenso already. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community