On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Daniel Benoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2008 04:56:17 Peter Helfer wrote: >> Please recall also the *nix-way of thinking: do >> one thing, but do it well. > > The idea of having the componets do one thing and do it well is so that you > can swap them out for other components without incompatibilities. > >> im more the kind of concerned user who wishd' >> that openmoko would become a unified platform >> than a play-bed for 20 distributions... > > That's contrary to the design goals of the project. They intentionally made > it so that you can change out every component of the software, right down to > the most basic boot loader elements. If only one dsitribution and software > stack was ever made for this hardware, then it's an indication that the > creators failed to achieve their vision. > > I don't see what you're complaining about either. Why do you want to not > have choice? >
I doubt if he meant to have only one platform. He meant, let's have one OFFICIAL platform FIRST, which does everything well and is attractive/easy to use. _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
