About that conversation I had with Matt Lee from the fsf about the
OpenPandora I was talking about, here is the last replay I had with him:
"Hey, I remember you :)
Since then we've spoken to the developers, and Craig got quite heated on
his forum. Basically, it has a lot of firmware blobs and there's little
effort being done to fix some of them.
http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/7085-how-free-is-the-openpandora/";
I believe Matt said Craig Rothwell was the inventor/businessman behind
OpenPandora.
After that I lost interest on the OpenPandora project. I guess that as onpon4
mentions, you could use the OpenPandora with more or less free software even
if the developer's purpose wasn't specifically free software, as we do with
most devices already anyway, but at that time I was hopping to find a free
software focus project. Even today I do not understand why isn't the
community funding a device alike with free software in mind. I have heard
it's hard to convince the big companies to give free software drivers, which
is probably why the OpenPandora is not anyway.
That's why I do believe that supporting replicant, can really help. I mean, a
tablet or a cellphone could basically do what the Open Pandora does anyway,
right?, and their focus is free software. Now add a joystick to a cellphone
and I think you got a deal xD
It is true that replicant and cell phone's freeness is not perfect yet, but I
believe that if we continue supporting it that day may come. At least they
are trying, unlike the Open Pandora.
