NINJA-PIRATES! On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Karthik Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > I clearly don't blame the developers here myself. I blame Openmoko's > selfish management (probably it's board of directors or C*Os) for > this. I am sure that a developer who talks back against this will just > get fired/have to face bad consequences. > > What would be the best way to 'convince' or 'force' the management to > change their decisions? Does anyone know a lawyer? > > -Karthik > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> My experience, as I'm sure with many other people, with my freerunner >> has been frustrating most of the time. To say, its all on the user is >> wrong. Granted the community could be better, however, its hard to >> contribute when everything is so fragmented. >> >> For instance, about the echo problem, one of the developers for >> OpenMoko stated "Since there are different hw versions out there (a5, >> a6, a7), it's impossible to provide one alsa state file that suits all >> models." Wait a sec. If the developers know the issues, What's >> preventing the if statement that would prevent hundreds of hours of >> tweaking, testing, and frustration for the community? >> >> Let's be honest here FIC is making a pretty penny off of OpenMoko, >> using very old hardware selling at a premium price (2.5g not even >> EDGE). Yet we are OK with that. What the community DOES expect is >> basic support, for starters a phone that makes calls without echoing, >> doesn't drop connection and sends and receives text messages reliably >> as the Number 1 priority. If I'm not mistaken, the majority of the >> working code in OpenMoko is from Trolltech. In addition FSO has a >> very nice distro and the Freerunner isn't even its main device. Yet >> more than 1 year AFTER the release of the 1974, we still have MAJOR >> issues from a basic install of Om. Then we read stuff like this. >> >> "OM is moving more focus to gta03 now, so my current resource for >> qtopia is fairly limited." >> >> It becomes evident that FIC and Openmoko cares less about creating >> reliably working software then it does about moving products. (not >> blaming the developers here, they get pressure) Follow the next link >> and I think I've made my case. >> >> http://www.cafepress.com/openmoko_inc >> >> Now with that said, I will be posting online my howtos including >> scripts to make a kinda stable variant of FDOM soon. Been too busy >> reflashing my phone. >> >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Karthik Kumar <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> You should have fixed the GTA02 months back, when you released it. >>> Instead, you people are working on GTA03/Neo Whatever. It proves that >>> you don't care about the community, You just care about the bunch of >>> people who might want to buy your upcoming phones, who sponsor your own >>> selfish causes and suffer while you are working on GTA04. >> >> -- >> Paul >> Email - [email protected] >> >> There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through >> which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. >> Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray >> >> _______________________________________________ >> support mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support >> > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support >
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