On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Bobby Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > As much as I hate to chime in on such a busy and unproductive thread... > > When the GTA02 was sold, it was *for developers only*. It was very clear on > the site. The software is not done. It is not stable. (That said, there > are software versions that give you good, stable access to most or all of > the hardware for most people. They're just hard to find, and are different > for different HW releases.) > > If it turns out that the hardware can't work reasonably as a phone > regardless of software, then FR owners may have a legitimate grievance. (I > only have a GTA01). Until that time, you got what was advertised. Even if > my hardware can't work reasonably as a phone, I got what was advertised :-) >
There are still hardware problems that exist with almost every freerunner out there (GPS signal levels, for one). I would like to see them fixed by Openmoko, Inc. > And remember, you people who rushed out to buy a phone because it was open, > even with no stable software - there are people who responded to > frustrations in the direction by fixing the things they didn't like. See > SHR, Debian, FDOM, etc. > > I grow frustrated with the directions OM takes and the priorities they have > sometimes, and I blow off steam in IRC. I try to do it when/where no OM > devs are hanging out, because I think they're doing a hard job and don't > have control of the things that frustrate me. Bitching to people about > things they're working on when they can't do anything about the stuff you're > griping about just lowers their morale, which is counterproductive. > I get that. At the same time, you realize that the frustration is totally vented towards Openmoko's management. Let me say this again: Do not hijack this thread towards open source, or productivity or whatever. > I really do think the OM devs are doing a good job on a task that is very > difficult, and they get a lot of grief for it. I just want to say thanks. > That's my whole reason for posting - to thank Andy, Harald, etc. etc. in the > OM group, Lorn, etc. of Trolltech, mwester, Julien, quickdev, MarcOChapeau, > etc. of the community. I apologize for all the big contributors I didn't > name. I appreciate your work just as much even if I may not remember your > name from IRC/ML :-) > > Great work guys, > Thanks! > Bobby > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support > _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
