Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-26 Thread Simon
On 1/24/07, Renaissance Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He said what? Christ, give me Richard Stallman any day. Renaissance Man On 24 Jan 2007, at 1:03 am, Marcus Bauer wrote: > Linus Torvalds once jokingly said: "I am your god". Here's my understanding of this comment, to clear things up: t

Re: Just for walkers... Re: Yes it will have vibra alarm Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Jeff Andros
ha ha, I did mean to send it to the list... thanks! On 1/26/07, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Salve Jeff! Was it your intention to answer me private and not to the list, too? Don't get me to seriously, my English is not perfect, so I'm not good in making jokes in English :)) yo

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Richard Boehme
One point: > > If you feel allowing proprietary, closed software in hurts the 'free > > your phone' spirit, and the market place is closed to them, it only > > hurts the amount of applications available for the phone. > > The amount of applications available for the phone is not the goal; > the

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Bryce Leo
Marcus, I don't know what the problem is but I think you need to take some time and think about some things. Nothing good comes of a rushed release. This is a flagship product, it needs to be heavily refined and rock solid or the public won't keep interest. This is not designed to JUST be a devel

Re: wap browser? any better one than wApua?

2007-01-26 Thread Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
WAP 2.0 supports XHTML-Basic and XHTML-Mobile Profile, so use a XHTML browser instead... Old WML is dead! 2007/1/26, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Salve! In Germany is the using of wap pages quite expensive¹ and unpopulare (You better by a news paper then reading some wap pages) and I wou

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Warren Noronha
On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:07 PM, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Listen, there's nobody on this list that wishes we'd had this phone out in January more than I. But delays happen. You can't seriously be calling us liars now are you? Haven been working on a wireless device my self for the past few m

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Marcel de Jong
I'm sorry to stick my nose into this possible bees-nest. But I feel I have to object a little here. On 1/26/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 26/01/07, Richard Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The point I bring from this is that if, for instance, TomTom has > mapping software t

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-26 Thread Mary Stovel
Greetings Rob and Sean, Thank you for welcoming me to the community! I have played catch up on the discussions going on here and it is very lively and interesting. I am now very excited about OpenMoko! I can well understand the excitement and desire to get ones hands on this phone

Re: CallWave

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Peter! On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Peter A Trotter wrote: > It's clear the technology is available to make this possible without any > crude hacks. We need to make friends with the carriers in so many ways to > make this project fly. Why? The Neo1973 could become the voice mailbox in most of the

Re: planet.openmoko.org and openmoko-devel mailinglist

2007-01-26 Thread Rodolphe Ortalo
Le vendredi 26 janvier 2007 à 19:21 +0100, Harald Welte a écrit : > Hi! > > It is my pleaasure to announce two new resources of the OpenMoko > project: Thanks for taking the time to setup these two new resources. Rodolphe ___ OpenMoko community mail

Re: Unified Profile Management

2007-01-26 Thread Richard Franks
> Example. Instead of a calendar app just muting the phone when in a > meeting (nice feature) it would activate a profile (maybe "silent" or > "meeting"). Other apps could also use those profiles. For instance a > GPS location aware app could know to use the same "silent" or "meeting" > profile

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread ROB
Only because it says so, right there in the US Constitution: Congress is granted the right to enact statutes "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." As I said, it

RE: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
>It may seem obvious to you that copyright law is about protecting >authors... Only because it says so, right there in the US Constitution: Congress is granted the right to enact statutes "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors

Re: qemu and images.

2007-01-26 Thread Peter A Trotter
Side note final release 9/11 Isn't that a poorly chosen date... Whatever You do it will piss someone off. ...Dons flame retardent suit... We can't let terror rule our lives ...Flees stage left... ___ OpenMoko community mailing list communit

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
On 1/26/07 10:47 AM, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Your argument may be 'but every software for the phone really should >> be free - people will write it'. However, if someone hasn't come up >> with an absolutely free, modifiable mapping software, I should just be >> able to ge

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Simon
On 1/26/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Copyright law has _always_ been about protecting authors, i.e. creators, from the undesirable economics effects of uncontrolled copying of their work. Period. It may seem obvious to you that copyright law is about protecting authors, b

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread David Ford
I don't agree with his email tone either and neither will he speed up release of the product. His email was rude and abusive, yes. But him an idiot, no. -david David Schlesinger wrote: > > >He's not an idiot, he's just being bluntly vocal. > > Sorry, David, _I'm_ "bluntly vocal", that was simpl

Re: CallWave

2007-01-26 Thread Peter A Trotter
It's clear the technology is available to make this possible without any crude hacks. We need to make friends with the carriers in so many ways to make this project fly. This is just one aspect - albeit a very cool one! Thanks for the link Jesse. -Pete On 26/01/07, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Required Software

2007-01-26 Thread Knight Walker
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:16 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: I've been working with Linux for such a long time and I'm not sure what > that VPN client is. Truth is, though most popular network devices > (Cisco, etc.) use VPN that Linux supports, it's Microsoft's VPN system > that's most prevalent in the c

RE: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
>He's not an idiot, he's just being bluntly vocal. Sorry, David, _I'm_ "bluntly vocal", that was simply abusive. There's a difference, but I've never known either one to speed up a hardware platform project. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list commun

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Simon
On 1/26/07, Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Harald Welte wrote: > So I sincerely doubt that OpenMoko would ever actively support > proprietary applications (e.g. by DRM hooks). We certainly cannot do > anything against them, though. GPLv3? The GPLv3 does nothing

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
On 1/26/07 11:01 AM, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If it's not the author's wish that the software be freely >> copy-able, which is certainly a desire the author's quite >> entitled to have > > I am less certain, and judging from most people's actions, I think you > are in qui

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:18, Steven Milburn wrote: Wow, I can't believe I got that backwards, thanks for the correction.  Kind of embarrassing considering I actually work on this stuff.  However, it doesn't invalidate that you don't need any more information than the accelerometer and a starting

Glossary Re: Communications (was Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?)

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Richi! Good point! On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Richi Plana wrote: > And with that, let me state that I think it important to use Figures of > Speech as little as possible in these mailing list. For one thing, many > of the members of these lists don't have English as their primary > language (I kn

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Knight Walker
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:04 +0100, Ortwin Regel wrote: > I like open source and stuff but some things, especially games, are > closed in many cases. What are the possibilities for selling closed > software for OpenMoko devices? Will there be a central online > marketplace? What about DRM, is there

Communications (was Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?)

2007-01-26 Thread Richi Plana
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 13:40 -0500, Steven Milburn wrote: > Sean: I think you missed the sarcastic hyperbole that Marcus was > attempting to use. He was basically saying that calling you liars > would be about as wrong as assuming since he didn't reply, he must not > have read a post. It's a weak

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Harald Welte wrote: > So I sincerely doubt that OpenMoko would ever actively support > proprietary applications (e.g. by DRM hooks). We certainly cannot do > anything against them, though. GPLv3? Paul ___ OpenMoko community maili

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
On 1/26/07 10:33 AM, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The original point was: It doesn't make sense to equate copying > digital information with stealing physical objects. No...? If you were to come into possession tomorrow of a copy of the yet-to-be-published seventh Harry Potter

qemu and images.

2007-01-26 Thread Lars Hallberg
First: I understand if all developers are busy right now... But after February 11... Can we get a release of a kernel and disc image for qemu, and the repository so we can update our image. Then we can explore the environment, test not only our software, but our ipkg packaging. Hack not on

Re: A cool device must have a powerfull e-book reader

2007-01-26 Thread Ketut P. Kumajaya
FBReader have GTK+ and Qt interface. I made some modification to make it not look alien on Motorola EZX platform. EZX base on Qte with different look and feel. I think still need some work to make it smooth integrated to OpenMoko platform. ---Pesan Asli--- Dari:Marcin Juszkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Derek Pressnall
The actual point was a different one: there is no reason to shy away just because it is not perfect yet. Actually, there is. Studys have shown that in relation to the Bazzar software development model that even though "release early, release often" helps at some point, most successfull projects

Re: Required Software

2007-01-26 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Alexandru Lazar writes: >> I've been working with Linux for such a long time and I'm not sure what >> that VPN client is. Truth is, though most popular network devices >> (Cisco, etc.) use VPN that Linux supports, it's Microsoft's VPN system >> that's most prevalent in the companies I've encountere

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/01/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See whether you get charged with something like theft (or infringement of copyright, which is tantamount to theft...) Infringement of copyright is very, very different to theft. >If I shoplift some food from my local >store, no one

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread David Ford
Steven Milburn wrote: > Wow, I can't believe I got that backwards, thanks for the correction. > Kind of embarrassing considering I actually work on this stuff. > However, it doesn't invalidate that you don't need any more > information than the accelerometer and a starting point in order to > tra

Unified message menue? pictures? Re: CallWave

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Jesse! On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Jesse Ross wrote: > There was some mention on this list a while ago about an iPhone-style > Visual Voicemail system. I wouldn't mention apple as refference for this idea - apple like to claim patents for solutions and like to sue... > The following service cou

Re: Required Software

2007-01-26 Thread Alexandru Lazar
I've been working with Linux for such a long time and I'm not sure what that VPN client is. Truth is, though most popular network devices (Cisco, etc.) use VPN that Linux supports, it's Microsoft's VPN system that's most prevalent in the companies I've encountered. Does anyone know which VPN syste

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia piątek, 26 stycznia 2007 19:24, Marcus Bauer napisał: > But if you can produce enough phones, than let all the early adopters > have them, whether they are developers or not. In projects like this it is normal to write that phones in Phase 0/1 are target to developers. It is other way to sa

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Steven Milburn
- Forwarded message -- From: Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:13:49 +0100 Subject: Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer On Friday 26 January 2007 18:41:50 Tim Newsom wrote: > > yes, accelerometers measure acce

RE: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
>Grey areas. Actually, I don't think it's grey at all. The decision maker, as far as how a work can be published and/or sold, is the copyright holder. Copyright is the _right_ to _copy_. If you're not the copyright holder, and you haven't been granted a right to copy by the copyright holder, th

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread David Ford
He's not an idiot, he's just being bluntly vocal. I sense his frustration with not having the device and his concern that others will get to market first and stealing the 'community made' thunder and of course in financial speak, the market share. We all want toys and I'm sure OM is itching at th

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/01/07, Richard Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The point I bring from this is that if, for instance, TomTom has mapping software that I want to use, I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get it. I should just be able to go into the market place, go to 'Non-Free Software', and buy the

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread David Ford
Tim Newsom wrote: > Ok Steve. I grant you that the first derivative of acceleration is > velocity... How do you propose to gain any velocity information when > the acceleration measured is zero as would be the case if you are at a > constant velocity? This is why I am saying you would need some b

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Steven Milburn
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marcus Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:37:39 +0800 Subject: Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters? On 1/26/07 9:40 AM, "Marcus Bauer" <[

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/01/07, Jonathon Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I really hate to get in on this discussion Talking about freedom is important, so thank you for your polite and rational contribution. Dave Crossland wrote: > But when I copy software, no one loses it and another person gets it. > There'

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 01:37 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > Listen, there's nobody on this list that wishes we'd had this phone out in > January more than I. But delays happen. You can't seriously be calling us > liars now are you? Gosh no, that would be nonsense! However I'm sure I'm not the o

Re: planet.openmoko.org and openmoko-devel mailinglist

2007-01-26 Thread Harald Welte
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:28:19AM +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > HW> This is a mailinglist dedicated to OpenMoko development. From > HW> developers, for developers, by developers. > > Could you explain a bit: is it mailing list for discussing development > of OpenMoko itself only or also for

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 01:35 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > Marcus, these kind of comments are not constructive at all. Mickey is a core > member of OpenMoko and is doing an amazing job. You haven't even seen the > work he's done and you're already bashing us? I honestly believe that OpenEmbedded

Re: planet.openmoko.org and openmoko-devel mailinglist

2007-01-26 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 19:21:15 26.01.2007 UTC+01 when Harald Welte did gyre and gimble: HW> 2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] HW> This is a mailinglist dedicated to OpenMoko development. From HW> developers, for developers, by developers. Could you explain a bit: is it mailing list for discussing development

planet.openmoko.org and openmoko-devel mailinglist

2007-01-26 Thread Harald Welte
Hi! It is my pleaasure to announce two new resources of the OpenMoko project: 1) planet.openmoko.org See: http://planet.openmoko.org/ This is a PlanetPlanet RSS feed aggregator of blogs and journals by both official OpenMoko developers, and people in the comunity working on OpenMoko related pr

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Harald Welte
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:04:54PM +0100, Ortwin Regel wrote: > What about DRM, is there a way to bind a program to a sync ID like > it's usually done with PalmOS or to a device ID? (It should be > possible to bind it to an SD card ID, right?) While I'm not in charge of marketing or strategic dec

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 26 January 2007 18:41:50 Tim Newsom wrote: > > yes,  accelerometers measure acceleration.  The first derivative of > > acceleration is velocity.  > Ok Steve. I grant you that the first derivative of acceleration is > velocity... I don't think so. The first derivative of VELOCITY is ac

Re: Will the OSDL/MLI have a yearly report as well? Re: LiMo foundation

2007-01-26 Thread Richi Plana
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 01:51 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > >> Linux Organisation membership and organisation politics is not my > >> business, but from the linux-user point of view it is a little > >> confusing that OpenMoko/Neo1973 isn't mentioned here: > >> http://old.linux-foundation.org/lab_ac

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26-Jan-2007 18:06 Subject: Re: Possibilities for commercial software? To: Peter A Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (offlist) On 26/01/07, Peter A Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: proprietary software. If you w

RE: Will the OSDL/MLI have a yearly report as well? Re: LiMo foundation

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
>> Not too confusing. It's not a recent page, and the information on there was >> provided by members (of which FIC is not currently one, although we've >> invited >> them to participate...) > >Please don't take this a meaning anything other than we have zero free time Oh, believe me, I understan

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread hank williams
In summary: ignore the trolls and keep doing what you're doing. Indeed. Ditto! Hank ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Richi Plana
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:41 -0800, Tim Newsom wrote: > Ok Steve. I grant you that the first derivative of acceleration is > velocity... How do you propose to gain any velocity information when the > acceleration measured is zero as would be the case if you are at a > constant velocity? This is

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Richi Plana
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:58 -0600, Jonathon Suggs wrote:Dave Crossland wrote: > But when I copy software, no one loses it and another person gets it. > There's no ethical problem. > > Sorry Dave, but you are wrong. There IS an ethical problem. Just > because you CAN do something doesn't mean tha

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Jimenez
Sean please just ignore idiots like this. The rest of us know you're doing the best job you can and want to see the phone out ASAP just as much as we do. In summary: ignore the trolls and keep doing what you're doing. --pj On Saturday, Jan 27, 2007, Sean Moss-Pultz writes: >On 1/26/07 9:40 A

Re: Will the OSDL/MLI have a yearly report as well? Re: LiMo foundation

2007-01-26 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/27/07 12:57 AM, "David Schlesinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Linux Organisation membership and organisation politics is not my >> business, but from the linux-user point of view it is a little >> confusing that OpenMoko/Neo1973 isn't mentioned here: >> http://old.linux-foundation.org/lab

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 9:12, Steven Milburn wrote: yes,  accelerometers measure acceleration.  The first derivative of acceleration is velocity.  Granted errors in the accelerometer compound when deriving velocity, but you've usually got GPS information to calibrate against (As Jeff was saying). 

Re: Some thoughts about the real importanted dates for OpenMoko/Neo1973 3GSM World 2007 Barcelona this year ...Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Gervais! On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Gervais Mulongoy wrote: > I have to admit that I kind of agree with Marcus, especially in terms of > leveraging the free marketing that will happen from an early release. But please not with a buggy hardware... > But in order to do this properly, we need to b

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/26/07 9:40 AM, "Marcus Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that I didn't answer to that mail doesn't mean I didn't read > it. Should I now say you obviously didn't follow your own annoucements > and didn't read the topic you set on IRC because you said the phone > would come out in J

Re: Neo Carputer (was: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer)

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Turner
On 1/26/07, Crane, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I mentioned this in another thread too, but a usb->svga adapter with bluetooth, audio, the CAN or other car electronic interface would make a sophisticated docking station that the Neo would be plugged into when driving. Another application

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/26/07 8:47 AM, "Marcus Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just get the shit out and stop talking about September. Get the brain > share into it - nobody will mind if you keep doing the decisions. Can we please keep this list civilized? > This is a great opportunity for Linux/Open Source

CallWave

2007-01-26 Thread Jesse Ross
There was some mention on this list a while ago about an iPhone-style Visual Voicemail system. The following service could be a really good replacement, if your carrier supports it: CallWave: http://www.callwave.com/ Discovered via: http://www.therawfeed.com/2007/01/why-wait-for-iphone- vis

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-26 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 1/26/07 5:39 AM, "Mary Stovel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The OpenMoko appeals to me because it is innovative and cool > looking. Also, I am tired of having to replace my phone...I have 5 > right now that are useless. I want a phone that can update and add > applications that I want.

RE: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
>But copying isn't stealing. Sure it is, or at least it can be. Make a hundred copies of Stephen King's latest book and try to give them all away in front of your local major bookstore. See whether you get charged with something like theft (or infringement of copyright, which is tantamount to t

RE: Neo Carputer (was: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer)

2007-01-26 Thread Crane, Matthew
I mentioned this in another thread too, but a usb->svga adapter with bluetooth, audio, the CAN or other car electronic interface would make a sophisticated docking station that the Neo would be plugged into when driving. Another application that follows would be to use the GPS combined with a blu

RE: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
>> Two guys I know invested time into porting their game from PalmOS to >> phones. It didn't sell at all but was pirated quite a lot. > >Proprietary software developers often refer to unauthorised copying as >"piracy." > >This terms implies that copying is ethically equivalent to attacking >ships o

RE: Will the OSDL/MLI have a yearly report as well? Re: LiMo foundation

2007-01-26 Thread David Schlesinger
>Linux Organisation membership and organisation politics is not my >business, but from the linux-user point of view it is a little >confusing that OpenMoko/Neo1973 isn't mentioned here: >http://old.linux-foundation.org/lab_activities/mobile_linux/mli Not too confusing. It's not a recent page, and

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-26 Thread Richi Plana
This should be put on the Wiki under Advocacy (or similar): On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:16 +, Andrew Loughran wrote: > If anyone needs examples of how phones connect behind ones back, I can > provide a fair few. > > I had the O2 XDA Orbit. It looks like a smashing phone, but the software on >

Re: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-26 Thread Oleg Gusev
Am Freitag, 26. Januar 2007 17:51 schrieb Michele Manzato: > > So, either the Neo is in network range (USB cable or via the Bluetooth > bridge, until we have WiFi) or there is no other choice and download them > via GPRS. > There is a "choice" to use the data in 50bps stream, like all other autonom

Re: Required Software

2007-01-26 Thread Richi Plana
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:00 -0500, Duncan Hudson wrote: > I'm sure that this has been discussed, but there will be a VPN client > pre-installed right? I know it's open source and I'm free to put what I > want but don't you think there should be a pre-installed client that is > certified to work

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Richard Boehme
The point I bring from this is that if, for instance, TomTom has mapping software that I want to use, I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get it. I should just be able to go into the market place, go to 'Non-Free Software', and buy the TomTom app. Your argument may be 'but every software fo

wap browser? any better one than wApua?

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Michel
Salve! In Germany is the using of wap pages quite expensive¹ and unpopulare (You better by a news paper then reading some wap pages) and I would use elinks on my server remotly instead of using a wap proxy, but I think a wap browser would be interesting for some user :) With atp-cache search and

Re: Neo Carputer (was: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer)

2007-01-26 Thread Richi Plana
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:06 -0500, Andrew Turner wrote: > On 1/26/07, Tim Newsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a side note... In the US and probably other countries there is a > > standard for the interface to the car computer. From that interface you > > can get the vehicle speed and diagnost

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Steven Milburn
We also need to take into account that accelerometers measure acceleration. If you accelerating or decelerating it will be able to tell you the magnitude of the force and you can time the duration to find the distance traveled. However, suppose that you are moving at a constant velocity, the a

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Jonathon Suggs
I really hate to get in on this discussion, but a few points were made that should be brought to light. Peter A Trotter wrote: The market place should be so simple to use that is always the easiest and quickest place for average users to get hold of apps. Bingo. People will pay for software/digi

Re: LiMo foundation

2007-01-26 Thread Richi Plana
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:22 -0500, Gervais Mulongoy wrote: > Applications get written over and over again because people are not > satisfied with the way things are. Well, it's not actually that simple. There are actually quite a few reasons. NIH being one of the most irritating. But even if it wa

R: R: Need info on AGPS

2007-01-26 Thread Michele Manzato
> One thing that we should look into is to have something like > an RSS Feed of that data, which can be downloaded everytime > we have a cheap (bluetooth, usbnet) IP connectivity. Then > cache all that data locally. As far as I understand: GPS ephemeris cannot be really "cached" in the Neo give

Re: Some thoughts about the real importanted dates for OpenMoko/Neo1973 3GSM World 2007 Barcelona this year ...Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread Gervais Mulongoy
I have to admit that I kind of agree with Marcus, especially in terms of leveraging the free marketing that will happen from an early release. But in order to do this properly, we need to better organize the OpenMoko support infrastructure. Support will be required for: * Hardware issues * Core

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Peter A Trotter
Can I call you a 'pirate' if you do share his fridge? Joking aside I think that you may have missed the point here. When I write an app for OpenMoko _if_ I decided to ask for money for that app I'm the sort of guy who wouldn't mind if someone else shared it with friends, modified the code etc. Ho

Re: Neo Carputer (was: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer)

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Newsom
You're speaking of OBD or CAN. There are some good interfaces out there, though the auto companies try to protect their information. It would be neat to build a plotter/scanner interface for measuring the car sensors on the Neo using either bluetooth or serial/usb. Bluetooth OBD scanner: http:

Unified Profile Management (Should be part of Moko Core Apps)

2007-01-26 Thread Jonathon Suggs
One thing that should be developed is a unified profile manager (and well defined API). With all of the application possibilities, there are going to be several programs that will take action based on (location, time, schedule, whatever). One of the most frustrating things is to have several diff

Re: A cool device must have a powerfull e-book reader

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25/01/07, Ketut P. Kumajaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have ported FBReader for Motorola E680i/A780 mobile phone and I am sure FBReader author only need a couple hour time to make it run on OpenMoko if he has access to OpenMoko device. http://only.mawhrin.net/fbreader I can't see a way to

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/01/07, Dean Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dave, whilst all software is free - rent isn't (oh and that nasty habit of eating every 6-8 hours is a real bitch as well). Of course there will be commercial software available for the OpenMoko community. If this is commercial free software,

Neo Carputer (was: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer)

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Turner
On 1/26/07, Tim Newsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a side note... In the US and probably other countries there is a standard for the interface to the car computer. From that interface you can get the vehicle speed and diagnostic information about how the engine is running. It might be interes

RE: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Dean Collins
Dave, whilst all software is free - rent isn't (oh and that nasty habit of eating every 6-8 hours is a real bitch as well). Of course there will be commercial software available for the OpenMoko community. And once a developer puts a price on an application, should you 'share' or 'unauthorise copy

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Newsom
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:12, Jeff Andros wrote: as I understand it, you can get more value out of the accellerometer than that in the simplest case, we know a gps can be off by a certain percent.  say you leave the phone still for a long time, you could average the error and get more precise o

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26/01/07, Ortwin Regel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Two guys I know invested time into porting their game from PalmOS to phones. It didn't sell at all but was pirated quite a lot. Proprietary software developers often refer to unauthorised copying as "piracy." This terms implies that copying

Re: Possibilities for commercial software?

2007-01-26 Thread Ortwin Regel
There is no management in a company of one or two people. Two guys I know invested time into porting their game from PalmOS to phones. It didn't sell at all but was pirated quite a lot. Indeed, it was not about the DRM in this case: There was some variation of it and it was easily cracked. The pro

Re:A cool device must have a powerfull e-book reader

2007-01-26 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ketut P. Kumajaya writes: >I have ported FBReader for Motorola E680i/A780 mobile phone and I am sure >FBReader author only need a couple hour time to make it run on OpenMoko if he >has access to OpenMoko device. > >http://only.mawhrin.net/fbreader One more app I want, which I can tick off the li

Re: LiMo foundation

2007-01-26 Thread Gervais Mulongoy
Hello Richi, Applications get written over and over again because people are not satisfied with the way things are. But that's not even the point. What I would like to know is if any one has managed to get Maemo working on anything other than a Nokia? Because if they have, how hard do you think i

IMHO no need to discuss a list of pre-installed software right now - (virtual) server image e.g. for NSLU2 ; ) Re: Required Software

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Duncan,* ! On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Duncan Hudson wrote: > I'm sure that this has been discussed, but there will be a VPN client > pre-installed right? For the devices of 11-FEB and 11-March it isn't important what is pre-installed and what not and till 11-Sep it will be *much* time to port

RE: Running linux programs

2007-01-26 Thread Sam Kome
Welcome! The answer to your question is Yes.  If you want more specific information, please read the following resources for the technical how-to; it's all out there. To search the mailing list: In your favorite search engine: site:lists.openmoko.org [keyword(s)] 2007 Neo1973 Roadma

Re: Running linux programs

2007-01-26 Thread Marc Verwerft
Try google like this: 'keyword site:http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community' e.g. 'agps site:http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community' Or search the archives by month. e.g. go to http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-January/thread.html and search on that page. To answer

Will the OSDL/MLI have a yearly report as well? Re: LiMo foundation

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Michel
Salve David! On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, David Schlesinger wrote: > > ACCESS is a participating member of both OSDL's Mobile Linux Initiative and > of the Linux Phone Standards Forum--I'm acting chair of the MLI Steering > Committee and vice-chair of LiPS' Architectural Working Group--and we've > con

Running linux programs

2007-01-26 Thread Владислав Чернышов
Hi all! Sorry, if I'm breaking some rules. I didn't find how to search maillists...so... Will I be able to run my linux programs on OpenMoko? After recompilation, of course. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists

Re: WiFi

2007-01-26 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 26 January 2007 09:31:18 Richi Plana wrote: > True that. I can't think of an application right now for 11n on a phone. > But then again, someone said 640KB of RAM was sufficient for the > desktop. :) Sure, but unlike with DOS, there's nothing stopping the devs from adding N when we need

Re: Reactions From Other People to News of OpenMoko

2007-01-26 Thread Bryan Fink
On 1/26/07, Tehn Yit Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a very interesting thread, it almost qualify as a very primitive market report for OpenMoko. :-) Great to hear that people are enjoying this thread. It seemed like a new direction I hadn't heard discussed before. For me personally,

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