Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <[email protected]> wrote: > Calypso wasn't brought by Openmoko Inc. as company. Previously it was > part of bigger company, FIC - I guess that's why they got it. It was > much later when Openmoko Inc. was splitted into another, standalone > company.
OK, that's fine. In that regard FIC can be viewed no different from Motorola, Nokia or any other large bourgeois company that made phones based on TI's Calypso/Iota/Rita chipset. However, in order to make this chipset work in the GTA0[12] configuration, the Calypso firmware had to be modified in an application-specific way. Corporate bureaucrats and lawyers are not capable of making such code modifications themselves. Therefore, they must have had at least one qualified embedded system sw/fw engineer who was given access to that secret source code for the purpose of making the necessary code modifications. Unless they were super-paranoid about the security of their NDA and were distrustful of their own employees (unless you are dealing with gov/mil secrets or somesuch, in my experience it's pretty rare for companies to be so tight within their own walls), such access to Calypso fw source code was probably given to more than one of their engineers, more likely to all of them or at least a significant subset. I assume that whoever worked on Calypso firmware for GTA0[12] phones back at Openmoko/FIC is no longer employed by that company: my natural guess is that the phone engineers were probably let go when the phone business got shut down, and even if not, people move to new jobs and companies all the time for all kinds of reasons. I would have a hard time accepting a notion that not one of Openmoko's engineers has taken a personal copy of the secret source code home with him/her on a USB stick. (I for one have no problem admitting quite openly that I have kept personal copies of most of the interesting bits from most of my past employers. And the only reason some of them aren't on my FTP site yet is because they are huge. I'm working on setting up a new FTP server with bigger disks.) So to those one or two ex-Openmoko employees who have a copy of the Calypso fw source stashed away on a personal hard drive somewhere, but who are not admitting to that and not sharing the ware: what is stopping you from sharing? Why are you being Bad Guys by withholding highly valuable material from Humanity? Can't be for fear of being fired, assuming that you are no longer employed by Openmoko/FIC. Can't be for fear of being sued, as that is just not realistic. Gennady Kupava <[email protected]> wrote: > It might be good idea to keep political/religional/race difference and > concentrate on techinical aspects. Yup, technical aspects such as the Calypso chipset and its firmware. Before we can start improving the latter, we need to obtain a copy of whatever at least partially modifiable source the Openmoko company had. I'll plow through that Chinese mobile phone forum site some more when I get more time to work on it. MS _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
