Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-09-03 Thread Nick
find a way to help) any work towards a fully free phone, and your focus on producing a handset is great. Nick ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org wrote: I invite you to visit me at my home If you meant it seriously, you might as well give your address or GPS coords (by unicast if you prefer) - but I highly doubt that you meant it seriously. trying to force me to hand to you Hand to me? What me?

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread Nick
Your free phone idea appeals to me enormously, Michael. And I, (unlike I suspect some others on the list) very much like your framing of the issues, too. I fully support the idea that if a law makes private conversation illegal, it is a bad law, and regulatory blocks on GSM that forbid

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
in the future. This also has another plus: why pay for each sms? We can chat in internet as long as we wish. --- sent with alpine https://spyurk.am/u/norayr http://norayr.arnet.am/weblog On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Nick wrote: Your free phone idea appeals to me enormously, Michael. And I, (unlike I suspect

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller
However, can GSM really be a base for secure communication anyway? IMHO the need for the GSM stack being open sourced is largely overestimated. Security experts say that the question is how to secure communication over an unsecure communication medium. Depending on which level you want to

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
Security experts have moved on from that line of thinking long ago I think. The problem with it is that a GSM/3G/LTE modem is not just a communications channel. It is a generic processor running software. Probably buggy, insecure, proprietary software. Same goes for GPS, WiFi, Ethernet and other

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread Sebastian Reinhardt
Am 23.08.2013 14:41, schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: However, can GSM really be a base for secure communication anyway? IMHO the need for the GSM stack being open sourced is largely overestimated. Security experts say that the question is how to secure communication over an unsecure

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Nick openmoko-commun...@njw.me.uk wrote: Your free phone idea appeals to me enormously, Michael. Yay, one more supporter! However, can GSM really be a base for secure communication anyway? I see that after your post, the thread on the mailing list veered off into a discussion of security

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 August 2013 21:07:14 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: I would be very happy to have a really free modem firmware on my GTA02 in the meantime. Then maybe you should try talking some sense into Joerg etc - maybe they'll listen to you more than they are willing to listen to me. I

Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-22 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Bob Ham r...@settrans.net wrote: Please allow me to address a question to the community as a whole: if you can produce a free phone then why aren't you? Do it! What are you *waiting* for? Well, as you've asked the community as a whole, without restrictive language to exclude any particular

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-22 Thread joerg Reisenweber
ROTFL -- () 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

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-22 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 August 2013 01:58:04 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: [blablabla] I have found some new and exciting TI firmware source leaks (archived on my mini-Wikileaks at ftp.ifctf.org) which will hopefully make it unnecessary for me to sacrifice my life in a gunfire exchange with the German

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-22 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 August 2013 01:58:04 Michael Spacefalcon wrote: [yaggediyagediblabblablub...] In the case of hardware it means publishing full, *unredacted* schematics and PCB EDA files, Yeah that *evil* redacting! Oh, did you ever hear about that funny story? Somebody noticed that the GTA01

Re: [Gta04-owner] Fwd: MFS Talk. Tues, 20 Mar. OpenPheonux (GTA04): Return of the free phone by Michael Dorrington

2012-03-19 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I have added a link to the Events page: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/page/Events/ Am 19.03.2012 um 08:49 schrieb Michael Dorrington: On 14/03/12 10:42, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Hi Michael, thanks for this support! Am 14.03.2012 um 10:11 schrieb Michael Dorrington:

Re: [Gta04-owner] Fwd: MFS Talk. Tues, 20 Mar. OpenPheonux (GTA04): Return of the free phone by Michael Dorrington

2012-03-19 Thread Martix
Thanks. Will you attend with GTA04 project? :-) Dne 19.3.2012 09:03, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller napsal(a): I have added a link to the Events page: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/page/Events/ Am 19.03.2012 um 08:49 schrieb Michael Dorrington: On 14/03/12 10:42, Dr. H. Nikolaus

I just want a free phone

2008-04-14 Thread Breakable
Hi there, I read some discussions about the accessories to GTA02. In my humble opinion the community should not expect the OpenMoko Inc to provide all the accessories, as soon as the phone is released, especially for the non-consumer version yet. For now i would be happy to get the phone itself,

Re: I just want a free phone

2008-04-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Breakable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I read some discussions about the accessories to GTA02. In my humble opinion the community should not expect the OpenMoko Inc to provide all the accessories, as soon as the phone is released, especially for the

RE: I just want a free phone

2008-04-14 Thread steve
Thank you Breakable. We struggle long and hard with this question. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Breakable Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 7:20 AM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: I just want a free phone Hi there, I read some

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-20 Thread Santiago Crespo
El lun, 16-07-2007 a las 13:10 -0400, Ian Darwin escribió: Calling it the free(d) phone to consumers (as opposed to developers) is going to engender an enormous amount of confusion and ill-will. Call it something else in the consumer market. The Flexible Phone. The

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-20 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 20, 2007, at 2:31 AM, Santiago Crespo wrote: I like the spanish term: libre (like in ubuntu cd-box). It's not a bad word, but unfortunately when I hear it I get an image of a guy wearing army fatigues and carrying an automatic weapon. To some extent I think choosing a branding

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-18 Thread Arndt Heuvel
Am Montag, 16. Juli 2007 22:14 schrieb Ken Young: How 'bout For those who prefer JTAG to Bluetooth. or It's not just a phone, it's a hobby. or Get one before the phone companies figure out what they are. OpenMoko - and you even own the ghost in

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-17 Thread ramsesoriginal
On 7/16/07, Visti Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a different name different locations ;o) The Phone for The Matrix tm. The One Phone for Mddle-earth. The Next Generation Phone for Star Trek tm conventions. The True Phone for religious occasions. Ok, that's not a bad idea.

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread ramsesoriginal
The Open Phone Our Phone The Human Phone (ok, sounds a bit like Ubuntu) Free your Phone (wich obviously is not the same as The free phone. It sounds good, and is already used in the youtube ads) More then a Phone Phone++ The Phone from people to people The Freedom Phone Teh ub3rz h4ck70r7 Ph0n3

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Mikko Rauhala
ti, 2007-07-17 kello 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal kirjoitti: p.s. i hate the way gmail handles this list. couldn't we have the respond-to adress set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hate gmail and complain to them all you want, please don't imply the list should be broken because of that. I shan't continue

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik
On 13:25:09 2007-07-17 Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/17/07, Mikko Rauhala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ti, 2007-07-17 kello 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal kirjoitti: p.s. i hate the way gmail handles this list. couldn't we have the respond-to adress set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Jim Paris
p.s. i hate the way gmail handles this list. couldn't we have the respond-to adress set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having the list server change the reply-to header is wrong. Please read http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful I don't use Gmail, but a quick google search tells me

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-17 Thread Mark Chandler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giles Jones wrote: On 16 Jul 2007, at 19:49, Ryan Prior wrote: I like the tagline Your phone, your way. The idea is that we are putting the consumer in control - this line may mean different things to a techie and non-techie, but that's okay - it ties in with the

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread digger vermont
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal wrote: The Open Phone Our Phone Just oPhone I've always dislike the I and My stuff. digger ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Luit van Drongelen
oPhone sounds great too... but not this oPhone: http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=79996a20-e2de-4757-8d22-dfc5a44acfc7 -- Luit On 7/17/07, digger vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:59 +0200, ramsesoriginal wrote: The Open Phone Our Phone Just oPhone I've

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Giles Jones
Digger Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Just oPhone I've always dislike the I and My stuff. Not even sure it should be branded as just a phone. Always preferred the communicator label myself :) --- G O Jones ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-17 Thread Ben Burdette
Great video! the OFone, which way is up on this thing? I'd rather not go with oPhone, it sounds derivative of the iPhone. Like the openmoko phone is a cheap wannabe iPhone. I don't people to have that impression. What about a nice industrial-style alphanumeric designation - like the 'FIC

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-17 Thread Ian Darwin
that nobody got too far along with advertising based on the free phone. I did not mean to get everybody excited trying out their new name for the phone. Let's all get back to writing code now, so we'll have something to advertise someday. *whew* Ian

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Robin Paulson writes: it's nothing to do with gmail. the reply-to field has not been set on the openmoko mail server, so replies to messages default to the sender. this is fine in most cases, but not on mailing lists This has been discussed to death in the past, with no consensus on what proper

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-17 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 16:54:45 Ian Darwin wrote: What about a nice industrial-style alphanumeric designation - like the 'FIC A1'. Or OM1. Or FS1, whatever. Well, you know, we're pretty far off the topic I started here. The phone being sold now *is* called the FIC Neo1973, period. IMHO

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:59 AM, ramsesoriginal wrote: Teh ub3rz h4ck70r7 Ph0n3!!11oneeleven Perfect. :') Honestly, I don't think this is something that one needs to worry about. What's going to happen if OpenMoko really becomes usable is that various vendors will adopt it in markets

Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Ian Darwin
I completely agree. My idea is to make two advertisment campains: one on maisntream media: maybe tv, maybe radio, flyre, poster, newspapers, wathever. This ads would be something like: The free phone, OpenMoko. The only one with The OpenMoko: now with builtin navigator and so on. Don't

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Mike
Ian Darwin wrote: Call it something else in the consumer market. The Flexible Phone. The Does-what-you-want-not-what the big corporations want. I don't know. How about The Freedom Phone. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Dirk Bergstrom
Mike wrote: How about The Freedom Phone. Makes me think of American flags and jingoistic phrases. Probably a non-starter in the US... ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Dirk Bergstrom
Ian Darwin wrote: The phrase free phone already means the opposite of what we want it to mean. It's done, finished, over. Move on. Ugh, Ian's right. That phrase has been violently co-opted by the carriers. Much as I like The free(d) phone, I don't think we can use that anywhere outside

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Pius A. Uzamere II
I agree with your first sentence, but came up with precisely the opposite conclusion! I think Freedom Phone would work extremely well in the US. On 7/16/07, Dirk Bergstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike wrote: How about The Freedom Phone. Makes me think of American flags and jingoistic

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Dirk Bergstrom
want an open source phone. Freedom, at least in the US, has been even more violently co-opted than than free phone... But let us not venture into unpleasant political territory. -- Dirk ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 16 July 2007 19:19:49 Mike wrote: Ian Darwin wrote: Call it something else in the consumer market. The Flexible Phone. The Does-what-you-want-not-what the big corporations want. I don't know. How about The Freedom Phone. How about centering around liberty instead of free (which

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Vincent
On 16/07/07, Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree. My idea is to make two advertisment campains: one on maisntream media: maybe tv, maybe radio, flyre, poster, newspapers, wathever. This ads would be something like: The free phone, OpenMoko. The only one

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Pius A. Uzamere II
who would want an open source phone. Freedom, at least in the US, has been even more violently co-opted than than free phone... But let us not venture into unpleasant political territory. -- Dirk ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Visti Andresen
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:20:24 -0700 Dirk Bergstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike wrote: How about The Freedom Phone. Makes me think of American flags and jingoistic phrases. Probably a non-starter in the US... Yes Freedom has a slightly bitter taste these days... How about The Liberated

Fwd: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Marc-Olivier Barre
Damn... hit reply, needed reply-to all ;-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Marc-Olivier Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 16, 2007 7:54 PM Subject: Re: Not the free phone To: Dirk Bergstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/16/07, Dirk Bergstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pius A. Uzamere II

RE: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread John Seghers
Dirk Bergstrom wrote: Ian Darwin wrote: The phrase free phone already means the opposite of what we want it to mean. It's done, finished, over. Move on. Ugh, Ian's right. That phrase has been violently co-opted by the carriers. Much as I like The free(d) phone, I don't think we can

Re: Fwd: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Daniel Bartholomew
. The set of people who would want a Freedom Phone probably does not have much overlap with the set of people who would want an open source phone. Freedom, at least in the US, has been even more violently co-opted than than free phone... ok, why not something totaly different from free

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread kent
How about Your Own Phone, or maybe just Your Phone, meaning that you really own it? Regarding reply-to munging -- don't want to revisit this ancient debate, but -- please don't :-) Best Regards Kent ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Mickael Faivre-Macon
free in it. Exercice left to the reader :) On 7/16/07, Marc-Olivier Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn... hit reply, needed reply-to all ;-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Marc-Olivier Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 16, 2007 7:54 PM Subject: Re: Not the free phone To: Dirk

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Shawn Rutledge
How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? On 7/16/07, Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree. My idea is to make two advertisment campains: one on maisntream media: maybe tv, maybe radio, flyre, poster, newspapers, wathever. This ads would be something like: The free phone

Re: Fwd: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, As on date, when you own a phone, even though it is 'your' phone, it is branded as company X or Y phone. If you go to country F, you see people using mostly only phones from company N, because it is owned in country F. If you go to country S, you see people using mostly only phones from

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Marc-Olivier Barre
On 7/16/07, Shawn Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? First thing I thought about when I saw youPhone was youTube... it seems a bit to obvious, sorry. __ Marc-Olivier Barre. ___ OpenMoko

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Prior
I like the tagline Your phone, your way. The idea is that we are putting the consumer in control - this line may mean different things to a techie and non-techie, but that's okay - it ties in with the spirit of freedom. On 7/16/07, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Darwin wrote: Call it

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 16 July 2007 20:24:18 Shawn Rutledge wrote: How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? u is often short for the Greek letter \mu (in Latex notation) which in turn is used as a sign for micro in many places. That may confuse people as it might mean microphone then? pgpPDRRoFs3Pl.pgp

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Jul 2007, at 19:49, Ryan Prior wrote: I like the tagline Your phone, your way. The idea is that we are putting the consumer in control - this line may mean different things to a techie and non-techie, but that's okay - it ties in with the spirit of freedom. Maybe, but then I

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Prior
That is absolutely true! No amount of marketing to non-techies will help until we have a solid software stack which includes UI responsiveness and a tested user interface. The idea is not to start a ad campaign immediately -- the idea is to be ready when the time for advertising comes! Speaking

Re: Fwd: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Tim Newsom
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:28, Daniel Bartholomew wrote: Well, since Apple has gone iThis and iThat with everything and dropped their use of PowerThis and PowerThat, why not co-opt that? How would you like a PowerPhone? -- Daniel Bartholomew Well, in a similar vein (throwing in my own silly

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Tim Newsom
tv, maybe radio, flyre, poster, newspapers, wathever. This ads would be something like: The free phone, OpenMoko. The only one with The OpenMoko: now with builtin navigator and so on. Don't even THINK of using based on Linux Kernel 2.6.xx or With powerful ssh acess Calling

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts

2007-07-16 Thread Shawn Rutledge
I thought of that too but don't see it as a problem. Still seems like a euphonious name to me. On 7/16/07, Marc-Olivier Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/16/07, Shawn Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about simply the youPhone, or uPhone? First thing I thought about when I saw

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts - unleash

2007-07-16 Thread Eric Smith
Unleash your phone. Original Message Shawn Rutledge on Mon-16-Jul 07 8:24PM A consumer ad campaign is NOT the place to push the free as in beer vs free as in speech argument. The phrase free phone already means the opposite of what we want it to mean. It's done, finished, over. Move

Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Ken Young
How 'bout For those who prefer JTAG to Bluetooth. or It's not just a phone, it's a hobby. or Get one before the phone companies figure out what they are. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts - unleash

2007-07-16 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On 7/16/07, Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unleash your phone. Neo 1973 : phone - and more OpenMoko : not just a phone -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Fwd: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Sven
ok, why not something totaly different from free, freedom and open? I'd call it the tuxphone. br ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread David \Lefty\ Schlesinger
Giles Jones wrote: Maybe, but then I think all the marketing is academic without the software being there and working. Oh, finally. Thanks, Giles. I'd have to say that academic is an understatement: if you actually sold one to someone who wasn't capable of building and installing a Linux system

Re: Not the free phone (was: Re: Again: Advertising thoughts - unleash

2007-07-16 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Jul 2007, at 22:13, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On 7/16/07, Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unleash your phone. Neo 1973 : phone - and more OpenMoko : not just a phone Neo 1973 - The phone you truly own. ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: Fwd: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread David \Lefty\ Schlesinger
Sven wrote: I'd call it the tuxphone. Why? Do you need to be wearing a tuxedo to use it...? (Yes, _I_ know, and _you_ know, but trust me, Sean will be spending the next year answering exactly that sort of question.) ___ OpenMoko community

Re: Fwd: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Robin Paulson
On 7/17/07, David Lefty Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven wrote: I'd call it the tuxphone. Why? Do you need to be wearing a tuxedo to use it...? (Yes, _I_ know, and _you_ know, but trust me, Sean will be spending the next year answering exactly that sort of question.) and the

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giles Jones wrote: On 16 Jul 2007, at 19:49, Ryan Prior wrote: I like the tagline Your phone, your way. The idea is that we are putting the consumer in control - this line may mean different things to a techie and non-techie, but that's okay - it ties in with the spirit of freedom.

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Daniel Robinson
Let's make it work first. On 7/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giles Jones wrote: On 16 Jul 2007, at 19:49, Ryan Prior wrote: I like the tagline Your phone, your way. The idea is that we are putting the consumer in control - this line may mean different things to a