Re: [Ubuntu-phone] just give up?

2017-04-07 Thread Paul Tait
To be honest Mark's claim that the community weren't interested in the phone and that it just didn't gain traction annoy me. The phone was high on promises and features that just never arrived. Not to mention the multitude of bugs that were never fixed. Every review was bad, and the phone just

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-07 Thread miguel pires
I really don't think crowd funding is going to work. Unfortunately to me, one off a lot of pp that have participated in the crowd funding for Edge, and have a E4.5, believing in the company (Canonical), i feel that this was a sort of betrayal. Betrayal in the phone/convergence, in the Ubuntu with

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Freedom

2017-04-07 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 7 April 2017 at 11:43, Alan Griffiths wrote: > On 05/04/17 21:51, A. James Lewis wrote: > > I definitely hope the work can be continued as an independent project > > > > Some thoughts on this option: > >http://voices.canonical.com/alan.griffiths/2017/04/07/the- >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official end off Ubuntu Phone - Please read this because this is sad....

2017-04-07 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 7 April 2017 at 05:26, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > > Will work on ubuntu phone continue? > >> >> >>> In a word: No. >>> >> >> Could it perhaps be rebooted as a community effort, and shared vision? >> >> > > > Yes, any Free Software product can be turned into a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Freedom

2017-04-07 Thread Alan Griffiths
On 05/04/17 21:51, A. James Lewis wrote: > I definitely hope the work can be continued as an independent project > Some thoughts on this option: http://voices.canonical.com/alan.griffiths/2017/04/07/the-end-of-a-dream/ -- Alan Griffiths +44 (0)798 9938 758 Octopull Ltd

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Death is Not an Option

2017-04-07 Thread Wayne Taylor
good words. agreed On 2017-04-06 07:12 PM, Felipe De La Puente wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm pretty sure there will be people(Myself included) interested to > continue this effort with the goal of having a non-compromised OS > alternative for mobile devices and the vision of converged computing and

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity 8 Community Fork

2017-04-07 Thread Mitchell Reese
Heads up there is active discussion about forking Unity 8, and continuing on as a community project. Go to https://unity8.org/ & https://unity.ubports.com/ for more info! Mitchell -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

[Ubuntu-phone] just give up?

2017-04-07 Thread Georges Thill
Hi all, Somehow at first I did not believe it when I read the news. Ubuntu is giving up on phones and convergence. To put this in the right context, I was one of the early Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding supporters. I currently own multiple Ubuntu touch devices and have actively been supporting bug