Absolutly and totally agree with you Robert
--- El lun, 2/6/08, Robert Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
De: Robert Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: Re: new iphone - not interested at all
Para: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org
Fecha: lunes, 2 junio, 2008 10:13
Hi,
I for one am completely blind when it comes to proprietary
technology
nowadays. I am not interested in any device that offers
substantially
less freedom than what is provided by OpenMoko.
'Proprietariness' is
kind of zero factor for me: Multiplied with any cool
feature factor it
will cause *zero* exciteness.
Additionally I am also not interested anymore in devices
that need to be
hacked, reverse engineered or lack important drivers (e.g.
power
management).
When it comes to proprietary devices I am also *much* more
concerned
about environmental pollution: After all a device that
implements its
maker's vision and cannot be freed from it anytime
becomes useless when
the next generation appears. If you are a manufacturer of
such a device
do mother nature a favor and leave the silicon, oil, copper
and whatever
resources you need for it under earth's surface!
Call me free software zealot, GNU hippy or RMS biggest
admirer but this
is my opinion and everyone is completely free to disagree.
I have a life
to live (and enjoy) and will not accept random people
misusing software
to decide what I can do and what not.
Regards
Robert
Christian Benke schrieb:
Good evening!
So who of you is thinking about buying the new iphone
instead of an
openmoko in case the technical specs really
improve(3G, better
resolution)?
I'd love to have a open smartphone, but there are
so many compromises
with the openmoko project(hardware lacks, formfactor,
unfinished software) and the timing for the release is
bad unfortunately
(on the other side the people interested in openmoko
are not
necessarily interested in the iphone - However, i
guess there will be
some people who drop the idea of buying a moko after
next weeks apple
conference...)
I feel bad about this decision, i'm not willing to
use proprietary
software anywhere in my environment, neither work nor
private, but the
hardware side of the iphone is presumably better(3G,
bigger screen) and
the software is just _ready_. I'm kind of in a
dilemma right now, on
the one hand i know i'll hate the closeness of OSX
at some point (Just
like it happened with Windows 7 years ago) and would
love to be able to
do what i want with my smartphone, on the other hand
i'm not a
developer (i do some scripting but i'm far from
any serious software
hacking) and i don't have the skills to fix
annoying bugs and will have
to wait another few months till the software is in a
useable state
and a freerunner could get a expensive toy for me if
development is not
accelerating as fast as i expect it to after the
release :-(
I guess the freerunner will not get available in the
next week so i can
still decide, probably i'm lucky and all the
speculations about the
iphone are untrue(only 3G is not a (OM-)dealbreaker
for me) ;-)
My favourite would still be a Nokia E70 with a useable
linux-OS, i
just loved the gullwing formfactor - if just Symbian
wasn't such a
crutch, and a bit more RAM would also not hurt on the
E70...
my 2 cents
Christian
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