Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-03 Thread dmatthews.org
Hi Michael Well I for one would like a smartphone with completely open software - if an open implementation of baseband code also led to an improvement in user experience on the freerunner, that would be a bonus. Like you, I'm not too concerned about rules imposed on us by large corporations, i

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-02 Thread Michael Sokolov
Radek Polak wrote: > i am rather saying: > (shortage of existing GTA02 units) -> (GTA04 is the solution) It is *a* solution for some classes of users. It is not *the* solution for all use cases. > Also pool graphics performace of GTA02 make the user experience very bad - > hardly acceptable f

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-02 Thread Radek Polak
On Friday 02 of December 2011 17:53:15 msoko...@ivan.harhan.org wrote: > So I still disagree with your reasoning chain of > > (shortage of existing GTA02 units) -> (GTA04 is the only solution) i am rather saying: (shortage of existing GTA02 units) -> (GTA04 is the solution) Also pool graphics

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-02 Thread Michael Sokolov
Radek Polak wrote: > With my wooden case i had fully working phone - only single part > that was from GTA02 was the speaker + microphone. I really dont > think this is big problem. Yes, and if I wanted to do the same thing (use a self-made wooden case), I could have done it just as well with my

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-02 Thread Radek Polak
On Friday 02 December 2011 05:26:16 msoko...@ivan.harhan.org wrote: > But seriously, swapping PCBAs between GTA02 and GTA04 is a zero-sum > game. The number of existing {case + LCM + GSM antenna + other bits} > sets is finite, and it stays the same whether you leave the original > GTA02 PCBAs in

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Sokolov
Radek Polak wrote: > What's the point in investing time into device that is no longer manufactured > and the number of users is decreasing to zero? If it is so worthless in your eyes, why are you (not Radek personally, but some others in this community) guarding that "moko" fw src/object code s

Re: GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-01 Thread Radek Polak
On Thursday 01 of December 2011 20:09:02 msoko...@ivan.harhan.org wrote: > Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > it is obvious why the open and free software community needs > > a device where every individual has control over the software. > > But isn't the GTM601 GSM/UMTS modem in the GTA04 just

GTA04 openness/freedom (was GTA04 Group Buy - Status)

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Sokolov
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > it is obvious why the open and free software community needs > a device where every individual has control over the software. But isn't the GTM601 GSM/UMTS modem in the GTA04 just as closed as any other? How is then GTA04 an improvement over GTA02 in terms of o