the bottom.
Sounds like a good application of the accelerometer to me.
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Incredible.
If I was the person that submitted this patent application, I would have
done it under a false name, simply because I would have been ashamed.
A great example of Patent System abuse.
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novel.
The problem with a patent like this one is that the patent itself is so
broad MS would try to apply it to everything if it were granted. A
daughter card for a motherboard could conceivably fit under this patent.
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charge for, to cover costs.
If the Openmoko community is interested in pursuing this, I would be
happy to discuss LI's plans further with you, and how Openmoko could fit
into this.
Warmest regards,
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Hello,
koolu.com wrongly sent North American variant of devices to our
European country in a pack.
I contacted Elaine Turner in our sales department about this, and she
told me that the only issue she had ever known about was a person who
ordered the units to be delivered to the United States as
Nikita,
This was caused by mistake by pregrad.net service we used, not by our
side. But due to quite hard import process (it lasted for months), it
was next to impossible to recover :(.
I am sorry for your issue, but unless the mistake was caused by Koolu
itself, I do not know that Koolu can
might like to see this as soon as possible.
Warmest regards,
Jon maddog Hall
President, Linux International
CTO of Koolu, Inc.
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São Paulo, 8th July 2009,
Mr. Jon Maddog Hall
The Executive
David,
I would appreciate the translation. Perhaps you can put those on your
web site.
As to the other universities, let's see what model we can create with
USP, keeping the other universities in mind, then we can extend that.
I do believe that growing the community through university
If it works out - the free phone will live on - and grow!
I will say that I have been saddened and angered lately (and people who
have seen my anger in the past know what that is) about the questions of
is the FreeRunner dead. I do not blame the people who asked the
question, just the fact that
Brenda,
Brenda Wang wrote:
+1
It's really great to hear this.
In Taiwan, Tsing Hua university also has a OPENlab.
I would like to work with the community to engage various universities,
but as I have mentioned before, with limited resources and a press to
get the Openmoko program stable
Harry,
Nice to hear good news from maddog, but I am curious how many
Freerunner that Koolu will buy from Openmoko?
I have no idea what this has to do with the conversation, other than
Koolu (of course) having a business interest in seeing that the Openmoko
is successful as a project. I do not
John,
I made some contact with Openmoko regarding joining their Openlab
programme a while back now and need to follow that up. We have created
an MSc in Network and Mobile Computing which has a module designed to
specifically use Openmoko. The MSc starts this September so I am
very
Hello mobiphil,
They found a very cheap solution, they sold the devices for lot of
money, practically they fooled lot of people. I can imagine the company
manager behind smiling about all the complain emails and
naive users still hoping their freerunner will display nicely one day.
Having worked
Brenda,
I am sorry to make you guys uncomfortable.
While Paul was right about the convention, and following convention may
make it easier to read your email in the future, I (for one) was able to
determine what you meant.
I am really sorry for that.
If that is the worst thing you ever do, you
Christoph,
Thank you for taking the time to write. My answers are in-lined below.
I am curious how many Freerunner that Koolu will buy from Openmoko?
I have no idea what this has to do with the conversation
You are working with the company Koolu. This could be in conflict with
the
Dave,
Hi Maddog,
[added cc to gta02-core list]
Thanks for looking into this - it certainly sounds like an amazing
opportunity, almost too good to be true - what's the catch! :-)
I hope that you will find there is no catch. If you do think there is
a catch, please tell me.
Do you
.
On the other hand, as I said before, from my perspective this has
nothing to do with the University of Sao Paulo and the Openmoko project.
Regards,
Jon maddog Hall
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Levy,
and would
like to know if is something that I could do to participate on this
new effort opened by you.
First I want to say that I do not consider this a new effort, but a
continuation of the effort that the Openmoko community started. If I
opened something, it is only a door to help
Michal,
Could you clarify a bit what exactly is the goal of this effort?
Hmmm, I wrote a lot before I realized that you probably meant by this
effort the effort of having the university join the Openmoko project,
but originally I took it as the greater effort of bringing out an Open
Phone that
the project.
Don't give up. If you look closely, you can see the light at the end of
the tunnel. It may be faint, but I have seen similar tunnels before,
and I can see the light now.
Warmest regards,
Jon maddog Hall
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and we managed to fly clear of the ship just before it exploded, and
thus we saved all of humanity with a Freerunner.
I had wondered what happened to that ship!
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But I could sit in the train in peace.
And while on that train, did you see the light at the end of the tunnel?
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#2 Not only do we 'announce' products that are not for sale, but in
addition we have an open roadmap and design the products based on
community feedback.
A comment on this:
Of course designing a product with as much input and feedback from your
community of customers is important. But when I
V1 with table underneath left-hand picture
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V1 with table underneath left-hand picture
Sorry maddog, i do not understand. I assume you would like to modify
V1,
but could you explain how more precisely?
Sorry, I tried to take a short cut in my description.
I like the over-all look of V1, but I also like the working hardware
box. By
Christoph,
Thank you for a very thoughtful email. I appreciate your inputs on this
topic.
This is my outing, that I never really understand the concept of
open(moko) :-)
From my observations of this list, I do not think you are the only one.
2. Considering this, you have to arrange with a
Patryk,
Now i get it :). Excuse me but my English speaking skills fails
sometimes.
It was entirely my fault for not being clear enough.
V8 made and ready for review.
I Like it - particularly the one with two columns (not three) and the
1px orange border.
I agree with David.
md
Either 8a or 8b.
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Rask,
Government will also want some return. I don't see clearly (yet) how
a project like ours can give them that (like OLPC and portuguese's
Magalhães).
A phone that's more difficult to sneak spyware into than a closed
one such as an IPhone or Blackberry. How do you know it isn't secretly
Patryk,
Speaking as one of the unclear voters, I thank you for all your work
on this.
For myself, I saw very little difference between 8a and 8b, so applying
my vote to either was the correct thing to do.
And your plans for addressing these types of issues in the future look
spot on.
Warmest
Maybe this might be possible in some future of Openmoko Linux?
Yes and no. Of course and not. :-)
Depends on what your definition of cold boot is.
There are trade-offs here, as always. As I understand it, the read-only
text of the kernel was in ROM (could have been Flash), so did not have
to
Once per year? :) Up until recently was once per day (minimum), but
since 8-8's SHR-U I haven't returned to that sad average!
/* gentle rant on
Which is *exactly* my point.
I have a friend of mine who's multi-user Linux system was recently up
for thirty days before a power failure caused it to
i've never understood the fascination of linux users with keeping
systems up for days and months on end. sure, it's great for a server
hosting web sites, or in a corporate environment, but for a home
system? it comes across as nothing more than who's the most '1337',
which is really lame. add to
Hello Christoph,
Good luck. Maddog made a lot words about the Brasilian universitary
which should continue the Openmoko project. Nothing happend.
As far as I know the University still stands ready and willing to help
with the GTA02-core project as soon as that is ready to move forward.
Rasterman!
We do go back a long way, don't we? And don't worry...even though I
know a bit about the X Window System, I bow to you for the real
bit-jamming.
all the players are closed with no signs of going open - unless you
(maddog) can convince them?
It won't be me who convinces
What I'd aim for are mature chips. They're not brand-new, their
quirks and shortcomings are known, documentation may have leaked,
someone may even have written drivers for them already, you can
get them in small and large quantities, they still have many years
of life in them, and you can already
sorry for this. I am just a typical German being always a bit on the
negative-criticising side of life ;-)
Some of my best friends are German.
I am sure we can have a beer together, Maddog, I am really not the
idiot as it may sound here.
I recognize that.
Thanks for your status report about
Cristian,
With Professor Regis Rossi I made a video of his application Open
Audience:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dVch2nSuBA
which used the Openmoko to control the sound channels of recorded sound
to place the listener inside the music.
If you had a number of microphones positioned in the
Back in 1975 one of the watch companies made a computer watch that you
could play a weak form of asteroids on it, and program the watch in
BASIC. It had a stand that contained a keyboard and printer, and the
watch communicated with the stand through inductance (you had to put the
watch on the
Joshua,
My experience with the 900 Mhz phones is that they work most of the
places that people go.
The 850s seemed to be in places where you wanted large physical coverage
or in hard environments. 850s seemed to be used by companies at the
seashore, in mountains, etc.
900 phones worked fine
Hi,
I have been watching the conversation about Android and its openness,
and I think that Timo's answer is the closest.
You should also remember that while Android is associated with Google,
and certainly they had the greatest say of it, that other companies of
the Open Handset Alliance also
btw, in this page I read also:
Then several things happened. Microsoft got interested in it and
licensed it from NYU (thereby helping to support our research!)
so, I think it's not free :P
Not necessarily. There can be dual licensing, like in MySQP, which
would allow for a not-for-profit or
Balint,
I think it is just a waste of time.
Actually, I disagree.
What the article's author is saying is what a lot of people outside the
project have said, and with the GTA04 on the threshold of moving
forward, I think it is time to start putting down the naysayers again.
From my viewpoint
Unfortunately, I feel the struggle for a Linux phone is pretty much
submerged by the Android phenomenon, which is in my opinion, too bad.
Phone hardware that ran linux out of the box would be wonderful.
It depends on what you mean by Linux.
Personally I would like the GTA04 to run a Linux
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 15:30 -0500, Harley Laue wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
h...@goldelico.com wrote:
Linux is pronounced in english as Line-ugs (/ˈlɪnəks/ [1]). I.e. it
should be phon-ugs.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
Just as an FYI from
I concede that you're right about Linus and Linux. The fact remains
for phoenux would still hold since it's pronounced with the same long
e sound as in Linus' name. So fee-nəks (or fee-nux) and not phon-ugs.
I think the group should be more concerned about the ugs part, since
the word ugh
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