David (and others) Thanks a lot for sharing your concerns about this decision with me. I had no idea it would be taken as anything but a good thing moving forward.
I'm in the States now for an urgent business meeting so I will not have much time to think about / organize this until the weekend, when I return to Taiwan. I will be in touch with you all directly and let's work something out that meets both of our needs. I'm sure we can do this. -Sean On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:32 AM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez <da...@tuxbrain.com> wrote: > > Really disappointing for us to , that Sean has decided to not maintain > an "official" distributors list, > This drain a little the interest on making business and be so > participative on making the marketing stuff Openmoko Inc has decided > not to do. > I really believe in the project of a freephone, I really believe in of > open hardware but I'm starting to not believe in Openmoko Inc. > And Sean please not argue than FreeRunner responsibilities has been > transfered to community because hardware are still sold by Openmoko > Inc. > > Regards from a very sad distributor > > David Reyes Samblas Martinez > http://www.tuxbrain.com > Open ultraportable & embedded solutions > Openmoko, Openpandora, Arduino > Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!! > > > > > 2009/11/30 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <h...@computer.org>: > > > > Am 30.11.2009 um 08:14 schrieb Christoph Pulster: > > > >>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributors > >> > >> Being one of your resellers, I appreciate your effords. > > > > Also being one of the resellers, I admit that I am not at all happy > > with how this list is treated. What I really expect is that the > > manufacturer who has a network of distributors takes care of listing > > them properly. And not through an anonymous community. > > > > Unfortunately Sean declined to continue responsibility. So they simply > > linked to the wiki page. And only after insisting to at least inform > > the community, he wrote this request to find a volunteer. > > > > Translated into bold words it means: "We, Openmoko, have no interest > > in organizing anything that helps that our products are being provided > > to interested parties. And the community will solve our problems." > > > >> The list of distributors badly needs an update. Not on the wiki, but > >> in > >> real life. > >> > >> I think it is confusing for the customer to see so many shops listed, > >> which are obviously not seem to be active anymore. English shop > >> Truebox > >> and German Trisoft to mention just two (both still have a christmas > >> 2008 > >> offer online...). > > > > I think you just want less competition being visible - raising your > > own visibility :) > > We have an open market and everyone can display his own offer as good > > as he likes. > > > > And, (especially for the Freerunner) I believe in educated customers > > who can compare themselves what the best and most up-to-date offer is. > > And they can IMHO also convert and compare currencies. > > > >> Besides, a lot of resellers quit selling Openmoko products, because > >> they > >> are unhappy how it worked out in the past. Swedish Openmoko.se shop > >> and > >> Spanish Blitz shop to mention just two. > > > > It is the lack of sales organization of Openmoko which makes it > > difficult for distributors to continue to work with them. > > > > > > Nikolaus > > http://www.handheld-linux.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community