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.

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