2009/8/5 Jon 'maddog' Hall <[email protected]>: > Rask, > >>> Government will also want some return. I don't see clearly (yet) how >>>a project like ours can give them that (like OLPC and portuguese's >>>"Magalhães"). > >> A phone that's more difficult to sneak spyware into than a closed >>one such as an IPhone or Blackberry. How do you know it isn't secretly >>being wiretapped? How do you *know*? With open hardware, there are no >>secret power supplies or audio inputs to the GSM/UMTS chip. With open >>hardware, you also decide what software to run on it, such as to >>deselect back doors, or implement encrypted conversation over GSM data >>calls, which AFAIK isn't available in any of the closed phones. > > All of what you said is true. On the other hand, perhaps the twelfth > largest economy (and the sixth largest user of cell phones) > > http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0933605.html > > [Note that the European Union is counted as a "country"] > > would just like the chance to have its largest university (and their > students) participate in designing an open phone that could be freely > licensed and manufactured by any one of its high-tech companies. A > basic phone design that could be changed to meet various needs in the > country. Manufacturing jobs? > > Werner is in contact with the professor, working on the logistics of > GTA02-core. I am working (in my copious spare time...yeah, right) on a > plan for financing. > > We are moving forward. > > md > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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