On 07/02/07, "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> be cool to have an OGG decoder onboard a
> future Neo
Wouldn't the existing hardware be capable of doing that already.
Sure, but in a power-hungry way; like the OLPCs' screen does colour,
but it can degrade into a low power bl
Hi,
Thought http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/02/06/1931244.shtml
was interesting - it would be cool to have an OGG decoder onboard a
future Neo for iPhone style music-player/phone hybrid functionality in
the free software context :-)
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On 02/02/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 02 February 2007 13:43:52 Dave Crossland wrote:
> For the recipients who are on Jabber (such as Jabber conversant
> phones) this is a good idea. For everyone else, MMS as the least
> preferred but available
On 01/02/07, Paul Jimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think a good Jabber client could totally supplant MMS
For the recipients who are on Jabber (such as Jabber conversant
phones) this is a good idea. For everyone else, MMS as the least
preferred but available option is quite neccessary.
So
On 29/01/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OpenMokoids
LOL
I hope this phrase is somewhere in the official documentation :-)
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On 29/01/07, Ken Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For me, the attraction of the
OM phone is the functionality that I can build on it, not that it's
only loaded with 100% Free Software.
If you make what you build available to the public, will they be able
to build on that functionality?
If not,
(offlist)
On 27/01/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is simply untrue.
The fact is, as originally stated, that the BSD preceded the GPL (by two
years or ten)
I would really appeciate some evidence of this.
Here my evidence that the original BSD license was first used in
On 27/01/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
you're free to give up freedoms whenever you like.
Freedom is not the same as choice.
A choice of masters is not freedom.
If you chose to give up freedom, you are no longer free.
Even if most people don't recognize that giving up softw
On 27/01/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:10:43 Declan Naughton wrote:
> But I prefer copyleft - the idea of using the law to try and make sure
> freedom doesn't go away, to giving others the freedom to take it away.
If others take code under the BSDL
On 27/01/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:23:52 Dave Crossland wrote:
> > And besides, the BSDL predates the GPLv1 by a decade.
> This is simply untrue.
>
> I have done some research on this:
>
> http://books.google.co.
On 24/01/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And besides, the BSDL predates the GPLv1 by a decade.
This is simply untrue.
I have done some research on this:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=%22at%26t+source+license%22+BSD
"In 1989 the "Networking Tape 1" was released; this was t
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
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
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 perso
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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:
proprietar
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
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,
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
On 26/01/07, Ben F-W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
if you tie that to a more specific
example, it might help to get the concept across. I usually point out
how the priorities of end users and those of operators differ: and it's
the operators who are the manufacturer's biggest customers. For example,
On 26/01/07, Mikko Rauhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
to, 2007-01-25 kello 22:56 +, Dave Crossland kirjoitti:
> Many free software projects accept donations, and if you are willing
> to pay the developers after enjoying their software, I feel it is
> important to donate a
On 25/01/07, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was
> thinking, if the OpenMoko phone had an easy way for people to add
> applications like the Widgets, the average user would like it. ( I
> would be willing to pay the developer after a trial).
I guess the most software will be free.
On 25/01/07, Wil Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd imagine if you draw parallels to the internet, the issue of malware and
viruses inevitably crop up. Just telling people "Linux is more secure"
probably doesn't alleviate fears. I probably wouldn't know what to say.
Anyone wanna take that on
On 25/01/07, Bryan Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also surprisingly, the one truly negatively-excited person I met said
exactly this, "Great, so I'll have a phone that just randomly crashes
for no reason." I know that he has run Red Hat Linux, and codes for a
living. But, he has had poor expe
On 25/01/07, Shu Hung (Koala) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I understand this GNU rational for the phone. But I would suggest OpenMoko
to take a more welcoming approach like Ubuntu do. If we have an apt-get like
application management system, we may have OpenMoko a FOSS default install
while allowi
On 24/01/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:15, Dave Crossland wrote:
> I feel it is misleading to describe code distributed in the 1960s and
> 70s as 'free software' - because software freedom was not recognised
> or enshri
On 24/01/07, Richard Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:05, David Ford wrote:
> Please do not personally CC: me on this silly thread. I am subscribed to
> the list.
I think this is a problem for people using Outlook or Gmail
Yes, I am a GMail user, and apologies
On 25/01/07, Shu Hung (Koala) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why don't we just use the Flash for Linux 9 on OpenMoko?
It is proprietary software, and using proprietary software is
unethical and unsustainable. A clear example of its unsustainability
is that we couldn't recompile it for the Neo1973;
On 24/01/07, Dominik Smogór <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is FIC in talks with some company now? I'm sure that OSS devs will put a
fervent effort to write/adopt a free replacement and I'm sure they (we, If I
manage to get some time off) will succeed, but it's the data that matters
and I don't know o
On 24/01/07, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If we were to lose the FSF perspective at any stage down the road, then
we could end up only able to buy highly sophisticated yet crippled
devices which actively impose upon our Freedoms. Like now, but worse.
In that sense, I imagine the Ne
On 24/01/07, Duncan Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm starting to get excited about the phone, and I really don't want to
see my hopes dashed. Has an FCC filing been made, is the phone ready to
go?
I believe so. From
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-January/001586.html
:
On 23/01/07, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- Free software existed before GNU
- Free software philosophies and movements existed before GNU
- Free software will continue to exist after GNU
- Free software philosophies and movements will continue to exist after GNU
- GNU is not the One Tr
Hi Sean,
On 23/01/07, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You must be reading a different link. Sean's email most clearly states
"in the form of a user's manual that will give credit to GNU." He also
clearly stated "We'll just call it OpenMoko."
Could you confirm that if FIC writes that Ope
On 22/01/07, MR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just joined the mailing list but if the point of this thread is
about whether the manual/box/website for openmoko should refer to it
using Linux or GNU/Linux then I am 100% whole heartedly behind
GNU/Linux.
That's originally what this thead was about
On 22/01/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I like to be accurate and know what I am talking about, and I like
>others to be too :-)
It simply never ends, does it?
Well, this *is* the internet ;-)
Feel entirely free to call it "GNU/Linux", "Bob/Linux", "Jim/Linux" or
whatever
On 22/01/07, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is it available in a downloadable format for people who can't view
> Flash movies? (I'm running Linux on a PPC machine here, so nothing
> from Adobe...)
hmm I found this
http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/
www.keepvid.com does what
On 22/01/07, Gervais Mulongoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just wanted a phone that I could hack on and (as
corny as this sounds) to share these hacks with my peers and gain their
respect.
This isn't corny, this is the best reason there is: Community and Freedom!
Best,
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On 22/01/07, Gervais Mulongoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sure they might take a few community-sponsored ideas and might
even claim them as their own (and sell new closed phones),
If you write free software for the OpenMoko platform and use a good
copyleft license like the GNU GPL, you can be s
On 22/01/07, Marcel de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/21/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If more people are aware of why freedom and community matter, then
> they will buy more products that support freedom and community, like
> more Neos.
How d
(sorry for the premature post)
On 22/01/07, Andreas Kostyrka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Renaissance Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070122 01:38]:
> I actually become aware of the FS movement via the GNU
> moniker, so it worked on me. For many years I was only aware
> of the OS movement (through know
On 22/01/07, Andreas Kostyrka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Renaissance Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070122 01:38]:
> I actually become aware of the FS movement via the GNU
> moniker, so it worked on me. For many years I was only aware
> of the OS movement (through knowing about "Linux").
Guess you w
On 22/01/07, Alessandro Iurlano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Very nice!
Did I get it wrong or he is talking about Big Companies or
government in
Italy (my country)? Sean, can you confirm? I am really
curious if there is something going on in my country that
I could partecipate to!
Sean says that
On 22/01/07, Sven Neuhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
> On 1/22/07 4:46 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>> Reason I ask is I'd like to propose an OpenMoko T-shirt, with the
now-official
>> tag-line. I'd buy and where that right away.
>
> Michael, wishing for "Free Your Phone
On 21/01/07, Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:58, Milan Votava wrote:
> It would be nice to know if Sean's aim is
> 1. to satisfy his and our need for open source toys like Neo
> or
> 2. to earn money like almost everybody on this planet while
> exploiting geeks like
On 21/01/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Both my girlfriend and father are aware of Free Software and what it
>means. This is due to me coming across the FSF out of curiosity about
>GNU, and then passing that knowledge onto them.
That's nice. I simply doubt that they'll be m
On 21/01/07, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
in the near future someone else will ask openmoko to prefix their name
with GNU and it'll start all over again.
I did not ask OpenMoKo to prefix their name with GNU. I apologies if
that was not clear.
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On 21/01/07, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
p.s. it's religious and for every one that feels GNU should be the sole
title bearer, there is another that feels they should not.
No one is advocating that GNU be the *sole* title bearer, although
plenty of people are advocating that Linux be
On 21/01/07, Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Personally, I never actually use the "GNU/Linux" identifier - but I can
understand
the logic and reasoning behind it, and it certainly doesn't bother me when other
people use it.
If you understand the reasoning, I'm curious why you don't use it..?
On 21/01/07, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Although I support the goals of the FSF, I hold progress ahead
of my political philosophy.
To value a political stance over "practical progress" does go counter
to our general culture, which encourages us to dismiss any philosophy
that dif
On 20/01/07, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Credit whom credit is due. Either they accept that credit is givin to
everyone, and that this is a long list, and that if people highlight
some feature of their choice it is freedom of speach, or they don't.
but the gnu way of placing
On 20/01/07, Richard Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Changing the system title to include GNU/Linux, would increase public
awareness of GNU, but I don't see how it would directly improve the
technology or how it would sell more Neo's
If more people are aware of why freedom and community matt
On 20/01/07, Declan Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Join us. "Free Your Phone."
> > I totally love this catch phrase! I hope that the FIC marketting uses
> > it as the official tagline of all its openmoko devices!
>
> If freedom is a real goal then I agree.
And I'm not so sure that is
Hi Sean!
On 21/01/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/21/07 4:57 AM, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 20/01/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> the OpenMoko Linux Distribution
>
> Can the FIC marketting
On 20/01/07, Declan Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Open Moko Operating System, based on GNU/Linux.
I think its safe to assume that the shorthand for the system will be
plain 'OpenMoKo.'
I was requesting that FIC's full title for the system replaces "Linux"
with "GNU/Linux" for the good a
On 20/01/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So IMO this is clearly a GNU/Linux system.
More than it's a "GTK/GNU/Linux" system...? Or an "X/GTK/GNU/Linux"
system...? Or a "list your favorite twenty components/X/GTK/GNU/Linux"
system...?
This is silly stuff, in my opinion.
Th
On 20/01/07, Declan Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"What we say is that you ought to give the system's principal
developer a share of the credit. The principal developer is the GNU
Project, and the system is basically GNU."
...
How about calling it the Open Moko *Operating System*?
I do
On 20/01/07, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is the first thing I asked; you hit the nail on the head with the
> GPS daemon. That's the only thing, apparently, and so only the GPS
> functionality would depend on that daemon being there. Ideally just
> 'apt-get remove --purge'ing it
On 20/01/07, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave Crossland schreef:
> Can the FIC marketting department call it 'the OpenMoko GNU/Linux
> Distribution'?
How much GNU software must be present to call it a GNU/linux distribution? Do I
still need
to call it gnu/lin
Hi Sean!
On 20/01/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the OpenMoko Linux Distribution
Can the FIC marketting department call it 'the OpenMoko GNU/Linux Distribution'?
Given that the free software nature of the phone is its primary
feature, it seems strange not to acknowledge the G
On 20/01/07, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there any code that would be running on the phone that won't be
FOSS (ie. GPS daemon/driver )? If so, how easy will it be to find out
which code is closed-source, and how dependent would the phone's
functionality be on the closed-source code?
T
Hi Ole!
On 14/01/07, Ole Tange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have never seen a device where the same connector could act as both
audio-in and audio-out
I think you can do this with an iPod: http://ipodlinux.org/Recording
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On 15/01/07, Gervais Mulongoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Heh, until the phone spam operators start using basic voice recognition and
to defeat the simple riddle :p
Spammers don't do email address de-obfuscation because it takes too
much processing time; I can't see them doing this in practice :
On 10/01/07, Attila Csipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Conceptually very similar to the FIC1973, with of course the
added Apple candy and design team efforts.
I wonder how the FIC1973's graphics capabilities will compare - all
the slick XGL style swooshing around and zooming in makes the
multitou
Hi,
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Thoughts? :-)
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On 09/12/06, Stefan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Keep in mind that the FIC team have no wifi on
the phone because no vendor allowed them to put the wlan driver under
GPL. So they make the dicision to lack wifi instead of using unethical
binary-only kernel modules.
I did not know that.
I
Hi,
I thought this blogpost from the FSFE might be of interest to the list
and also relates to the question I asked earlier about how the
openmoko relates to the FSF philosophy:
http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/back_from_gplv3_conference_in_tokyo_japan
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I think the issue of
On 05/12/06, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AFAIK FIC is supporting OpenMoko to build a plattform for their
hardware - so why should FIC support developer to publish drivers
for Motorola devices inside the OpenMoko SDK?
Is this similar to the idea that Apple should license OS X for g
.
But its still not a good thing to do the lesser of two evils, if you
can avoid getting into the dialemma in the first place. And you can,
by not using proprietary software and using Free Software that
respects you instead.
If Free Software doesn't exist for what you want to do, you can writ
On 30/11/06, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/30/06 1:17 AM, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm essentially asking if its theoretically possible that this phone
> might be FSF endorsed - non-free firmware is fine by the FSF as long
On 29/11/06, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, so all the GSM stuff is done in ROM? Or is
> this non-free firmware?
It's a completely separate system. It's got it's own (proprietary) OS,
middleware, AT command layer, etc...
Our (open) application processor -- the 2410 -- talks
On 29/11/06, Ole Tange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Optimal for me:
Pay USD 350 for v1. When v2 is out: Return v1 and get a deduction of
the price of USD 350.
But I will assume that this will not work for you: The returned v1s
are probably worthless to you. So a better way might be to include a
v
On 28/11/06, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "There are some minor, self-contained proprietary bits on the back end
> side in userspace."
> - http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2006/11/08/
>
> which appears to contradict
>
> "In userspace, there only one single component that is not goi
On 28/11/06, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And can someone confirm the GSM part is Free? :-)
Reason I ask is:
"There are some minor, self-contained proprietary bits on the back end
side in userspace."
- http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2006/11/08/
which appea
Hi,
"In userspace, there only one single component that is not going to be
under a Free Software License: It's our GPS daemon. The reason for
this is, that the specific high-sensitivity assisted GPS that we
wanted is only available in something like a "soft modem GPS", e.g.
one that does most of
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