What I don't understand: Mozilla has so much to lose from a bad ZTE Open experience. It is their flagship device! It's the _only_ native Firefox OS device you can buy now, and it's extremely cheap so developers can easily try Firefox OS out.
I'd guess that there's an order of magnitude more app developers trying Firefox OS on the ZTE Open than all other devices combined. If they get frustrated, you have basically killed your entire app developer community. That's a huge price to pay. Mozilla has way more to lose than ZTE does. So why isn't Mozilla stepping up to make up for ZTE's lack of support? Finally, not having control over the kernel/firmware never stopped anyone from figuring out how to make it work. Android modders have been dealing with that crap for years, and they still keep cranking out upgrades just fine. So I don't think that's a valid excuse when your project's future is on the line. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:33 AM, pazos <[email protected]> wrote: > @Daniel: Mozilla has no control over the bootloader, the kernel, the radio > firmware, because its not part of B2G. IMO Its not mozilla's fault but > provider fault. ZTE does not complain with any opensource licenses at all. > > I'm currently mergin some geeksphone init scripts to device-inari tree in > order to fully build boot.img from B2G sources. (extracting the kernel from > the device is pretty trivial). I already made a pull request to add proximity > sensor support and I'm waiting for merge. > > But none of those things will keep us to have some problems between versions, > because they are *NOT COMPATIBLE AT ALL* > > If you want to provide custom builds to people over the net you should notify > the version which was used to pick the blobs. I would suggest to update all > the phones to new 1.1.0B02 firmware and then rebuild the whole B2G (first > remove the backup-inari folder to be sure that all the blobs are picked from > your phone). > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
