Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Ham
On 2013-08-23 07:26, openm...@pulster.de wrote: the GTA04 is a ready-to-use OpenSource smartphone. The GTA04 *is* out of production and no longer for sale. It *could* be the motherboard in a ready-to-use smartphone but it *isn't*. There are no other reasons why it isnt available, just

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: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 August 2013 10:35:38 Bob Ham wrote: On 2013-08-23 07:26, openm...@pulster.de wrote: the GTA04 is a ready-to-use OpenSource smartphone. The GTA04 *is* out of production and no longer for sale. Says who? It *could* be the motherboard in a ready-to-use smartphone but it *isn't*.

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Ham
On 2013-08-23 09:38, joerg Reisenweber wrote: On Fri 23 August 2013 10:35:38 Bob Ham wrote: On 2013-08-23 07:26, openm...@pulster.de wrote: The GTA04 *is* out of production and no longer for sale. Says who? Says Golden Delicious: Note: we currently have no stock since we need to

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Ham
On 2013-08-23 10:02, openm...@pulster.de wrote: Its not out of Production, but production is stopped Err.. What's the difference between out of Production and production is stopped? -- Bob Ham r...@settrans.net for (;;) { ++pancakes; } ___

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 23.08.2013 um 12:08 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 09:38, joerg Reisenweber wrote: On Fri 23 August 2013 10:35:38 Bob Ham wrote: On 2013-08-23 07:26, openm...@pulster.de wrote: The GTA04 *is* out of production and no longer for sale. Says who? Says Golden Delicious: Note: we

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 23.08.2013 um 12:10 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 10:02, openm...@pulster.de wrote: Its not out of Production, but production is stopped Err.. What's the difference between out of Production and production is stopped? Compare with a train: stopped: is at the railway station and

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Ham
On 2013-08-23 10:38, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 12:10 schrieb Bob Ham: What's the difference between out of Production and production is stopped? Compare with a train: stopped: is at the railway station and waiting for a green light I don't understand. What is the

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 23, 2013 a las 10:10:58AM +, Bob Ham escribió: stopped? Concerning stop, can we please stop this SPAM? If you (Bob) have a proposal, how to continue, put it on the table and let's discuss this. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /\ ASCII

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ham wrote: I don't understand. What is the green light with respect to the GTA04? That was already mentioned; money for components being available. -- bye, pabs ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Rafael Ignacio Zurita
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:47:14AM +, Bob Ham wrote: On 2013-08-23 10:38, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 12:10 schrieb Bob Ham: What's the difference between out of Production and production is stopped? Compare with a train: stopped: is at the railway station and

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller
Am 23.08.2013 um 12:47 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 10:38, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 12:10 schrieb Bob Ham: What's the difference between out of Production and production is stopped? Compare with a train: stopped: is at the railway station and waiting for a

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Ham
On 2013-08-23 10:56, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ham wrote: I don't understand. What is the green light with respect to the GTA04? That was already mentioned; money for components being available. The fact that there is *no* money was mentioned. Here you seem

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 23.08.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 10:56, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ham wrote: I don't understand. What is the green light with respect to the GTA04? That was already mentioned; money for components being available. The fact that there

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
Nick, you raised very good questions. I believe, that we don't need GSM at all. I don't use it for two years now. When we use GSM we use carrier services. Can we be sure that carrier does not track us, don't record our calls etc? For instance, in my country secret service has direct access to

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: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Ham
On 2013-08-23 11:27, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 10:56, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ham wrote: I don't understand. What is the green light with respect to the GTA04? That was already mentioned; money for

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: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread kardan
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:45:20 + Bob Ham r...@settrans.net wrote: On 2013-08-23 11:27, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 10:56, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ham wrote: I don't understand. What is the

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 23.08.2013 um 15:45 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 11:27, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 10:56, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ham wrote: I don't understand. What is the green light with respect to the

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 15:45 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 11:27, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 10:56, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM,

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread pike
Hi What's going to cause the green light to go on? People deciding to spend some money instead of complaining that it is too expensive. What is going to cause people to decide that? branding. But it's already good to have a nice and clear website with downloadable PDF to print out posters

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 23.08.2013 um 17:05 schrieb kardan: On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:45:20 + Bob Ham r...@settrans.net wrote: On 2013-08-23 11:27, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 10:56, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ham wrote:

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Lukas Märdian
Am 23.08.2013 17:05, schrieb kardan: Fifth there is some expectation in the air me to come up with a new website design. So I better stop here for the next hours to hack something which will hopefully be better than what we have. I doubt it will make the key change alone. But it's already

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
could everybody please stop answering without checking and fixing the damn subject?! THANKS! /j -- () 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

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: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-23 Thread arne anka
I don't think money is the only problem. the missing money is just the indicator for this project's failure to create sufficient public interest or even awareness. while the GTA01/2 was a nice idea, it was already slightly outdated when it appeared -- and since then nothing has changed, the

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Ham
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:30 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 15:45 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 11:27, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 10:56, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ham

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone

2013-08-23 Thread Ben Wong
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:21 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: i am still undecided if i should admire or pity the thread starter, if he honestly believed that this community would be able to succeed where ubuntu failed -- and on top of that to jump from todays GTA04 to the device as

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

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 23 August 2013 22:45:05 Bob Ham wrote: I can't see anything that people will cause people to make that decision. This is why I'm wondering what cause *you* see. You said you're waiting. What do you believe is going to happen? What are you waiting *for*? What is going to occur that

Re: SIM card backup

2013-08-23 Thread Ben Wong
Four years ago this worked for getting data from a SIM card: http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg55862.html qtmoko SMS messages are saved in an sqlite3 file under Applications/qtopiamail/ On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Алексей fl...@member.fsf.org wrote: 1) How may

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
On the Road --- hns Am 23.08.2013 um 22:45 schrieb Bob Ham r...@settrans.net: On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:30 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 15:45 schrieb Bob Ham: On 2013-08-23 11:27, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 23.08.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Bob Ham: On

Re. Building a totally new smart phone

2013-08-23 Thread Adam Bogacki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to add my vote to the proposal of a totally new non-smart phone. A recent article in 'The Futurist' has flagged the demise of the current model of the 'smartphone' in favour of less intrusive devices such as glasses and watches.

Releasing GTA04 hardware source files (was: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3)

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Ham
On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 00:20 +0200, joerg Reisenweber wrote: Can't you finally come up with some *suggestions* or - even better - real actions that would help? At present the community is beholden to a particular company which produces something the community depends on. That company has a

Re: Re. Building a totally new smart phone

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 24 August 2013 02:04:45 Adam Bogacki wrote: I would like to add my vote to the proposal of a totally new non-smart phone. [...] I think there is increasing demand for a secure non-smart phone. There IS NO secure phone! See any of the dozen other mails in this very thread about that

Re: Releasing GTA04 hardware source files (was: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3)

2013-08-23 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 24 August 2013 02:10:55 Bob Ham wrote: On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 00:20 +0200, joerg Reisenweber wrote: Can't you finally come up with some *suggestions* or - even better - real actions that would help? At present the community is beholden to a particular company which produces

Re. Building a totally new smart phone

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Adam Bogacki adam.boga...@clear.net.nz wrote: I have not been able to find working links to freecalypso-sw anywhere. Not able to find *working* links? So the link I had posted earlier in this thread: ftp://ftp.ifctf.org/pub/GSM/FreeCalypso/snapshots/freecalypso-sw-SE52Fru5.tar.bz2 is not

Re: Re. Building a totally new smart phone

2013-08-23 Thread Adam Bogacki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 .. the ftp*bz2 link works and I have unpacked it. Now that I have dir 'freecalypso-sw-SE52Fru5' I am not quite sure what to do. Is there some documentation available, or a man page ? Searching by 'calypso' or 'freecalypso' did not show anything

Re: Re. Building a totally new smart phone

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Adam Bogacki adam.boga...@clear.net.nz wrote: Now that I have dir 'freecalypso-sw-SE52Fru5' I am not quite sure what to do. Is there some documentation available, or a man page ? No documentation has been written yet, because there is nothing to document yet: all that's there is a FreeNucleus