On Thu 22 August 2013 23:00:52 Bob Ham wrote: > muddled view of the situation. The idea that it would be possible for > the community to produce a phone with the same kind of specs as the > phone that Canonical, with its billionaire owner, just tried and > *failed* to build, seems to me to be rooted in a view so detached from > reality as to be almost pathological. To even *ask* the question shows > that there is a problem.
The only problem here is you fell for the story of the BILLIONaire(!) that "failed" to drum up ridiculous-in-his-balancebook 30some MILLIONS(!), while Nikolaus probably would be able to pull of same project on 10% of that budget. Canonical big hoax, sorry! If this Shuttleguy really been interested in building a Edge , he'd simply DO it instead of starting nonsensical crowdfunding. Don't you see this is a marketing gag, nothing else? /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary links:) http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii/ (German) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community