On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Wolfgang Spraul <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Just want to say thanks for writing this up! > It's tough, but I think you pretty much sum up the experience of a lof of > people. It's the best that we could achieve (I worked for Openmoko before). > I understand - I hope I didn't sound too accusatory... I don't think it's anyone's fault, and in fact I'm very impressed at the improvements that have been made. In my more optimistic moments, I think the FR might at least become a usable phone with limited smartphone capabilities in the near future... Sounds like a plan. > We all want a 100% free phone, but we gain nothing from building on sand. > So with the FreeRunner in the state it is, I think development will > fragment > for a while, until it comes together again in a new attempt at a 100% free > phone one day. Until then, if the hardware is not stable you cannot do > kernel > development, if the kernel is not stable you cannot do middleware, if > middleware is not stable you cannot do apps. > Doing it all at the same time like with the FreeRunner lead to what you > described above. > Yeah, I think that's a lot of the problem... when you combine unstable HW with unstable kernel, it's very hard to build a solid phone stack... but I don't think that the work going on now is wasted - it's (slowly) converging towards a pretty good phone stack, and I think once there's a good candidate for decent hardware with a reasonable kernel, it'll be quite impressive. -- Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist http://www.synergisticimages.ca
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