Paul Kocialkowski <cont...@paulk.fr> wrote: > I have sent you a long email more than a week ago about why I think all > of that matters for the users and didn't get a response. Perhaps you > should consider reading it.
I read it, but saw no point in responding as there is a fundamental chasm in philosophical basis between you and I such that neither of us will ever change the other's position. You will never, ever, ever be able to convince me to drop my FreeCalypso work and switch my efforts to OsmocomBB. It will never, ever, ever happen - NEVER! The only way you'll be able to stop my FreeCalypso work is by killing me - and even then you might not succeed in killing the project as some other people are already starting to see FreeCalypso as more promising than OsmocomBB, and it is entirely possible that someone else will pick up my work and bring it to completion. (FreeCalypso has its own active community now, in case you didn't know.) > It may be that you don't care about all those legal aspects, but most > other people do. Most != all. Some of us want a source-enabled dumbphone badly enough that we are willing to take a little bit of risk to our personal safety by breaking a couple of laws which we reasonably believe to be practically unenforceable. > Hence, your effort is worthless for all those people. I am not seeking to win a popularity contest, I simply seek to have a phone in my purse which meets *my* criteria of free, and I work toward the realization of that goal in the only way that is within my capabilities. I share my work freely with the world so that those who like it can use it, but if you don't like my work, then don't use it - it's that simple. Don't buy my hardware and don't download my software if you don't like it or if you find it incompatible with some law(s) you've chosen to obey. > I really think we should try to push OsmocomBB forward as much as > possible for the rest of us! And while you do that, I'll keep working on FreeCalypso. Let's see who gets to the finish line first. (The finish line being a phone which an user can usably carry in his pocket or her purse.) Are you aware of the fact that the state of OsmocomBB today is *exactly* the same as it was at the end of 2010? If you need proof, look at the video of the presentation about OsmocomBB at CCC which was some time in December of 2010 - what was presented there is exactly the same as what it can do today. Zero progress in 4.5 years. > And that's not even to mention how your project could reflect badly on > OsmocomBB development=E2=80=A6 Their problem, not ours as the FreeCalypso community. Should OsmocomBB sink into irrelevant oblivion, most of us FreeCalypso-using pirates will say "good riddance". VLR, SF _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@lists.osuosl.org http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
