On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello mobiphil, > >>and use those phones as reference...Again, M800 has >>keyboard, very usefull for a linux phone. Only drawback, it has only >>64megs memory, but better have less applications running smoother, than >>several slower... So ... whatsoever would be the device... > > Stating this you show that you completely misunderstood the goals of the > Openmoko project. Porting the Linux kernel and having the upper levels > of software interface available on a phone designed and manufactured by > Samsung is completely different than having software running on hardware > platform that is completely community driven, open in design and > manufacturing specification, changeable and freely licensable to many > manufacturers.
Thank you, Maddog, for your trenchant comment. I was having trouble verbalizing a response to mobiphil, but you've hit it exactly. To consider Openmoko a failure for having lower GPU performance is to misunderstand what Openmoko is about. From my point of view, Openmoko is a success that is still unfolding. I have exactly what I want, a free as in freedom phone and an active community of people to hack with. That's what I paid my money for. --Ben _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
