I certainly haven't had the intent to add another post to this but because the parent post is featured on fsdaily and people following that link there want a quick reply:
* tangoGPS is committed to quality and excellent user expierence is the key of the development focus * tangoGPS is open to contributions, everybody can grab the tarball, put it in a VCS of choice and send patches * tangoGPS is actively maintained and experimental features are a part of innovation and ongoing development * the forkers have so far submitted *two* patches which were not accepted because they were very low quality, introducing several bugs and at least one crasher * the forkers compare themselves to egcs ./. gcc, however that fork was done by long-standing, active contributors that shared a major part of the development work * open source projects are based on meristocracy, the longer and the more a developer or user contributes, the more influence he gains. Its a very simple and powerful concept. The tangoGPS project has been a huge success, it runs now on over 40 distributions and on a large variety of platforms, from handheld devices like the Freerunner, the Nokia N810 and N900, the smartQ5 and smartQ7, as well as on netbooks, laptops and even the AS/390... The success has only been possible due to the cooperation with the Open Source ecosystem at large, and has been featured in articles on major websites like linux.com. An estimate from the webserver logs shows a user base far beyond 100.000 and the friendservice has been used over a million times. The project is now in its fourth year of development and contributions are as always very welcome. A big thank you for all the support I have got from the community, the development of a fast, easy to use and user oriented app will continue :) Marcus Bauer - Lead developer of tangoGPS - _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community