On 29 Jul 2008, at 09:23, Marcus Bauer wrote: > ... > Openmoko should concentrate on kernel and driver work, power > management > and working hardware and a basic set of apps. ...
+1 As Openmoko push more open hardware out the door, people will come running to do cool stuff on it. It's the "blue sky" talk of "evoking innovation", "actualizing contributions" and "imagination resources" that is building excitement about Openmoko and leading to disappointment. Honestly, if Openmoko said "the Freerunner is a free, open, Linux- based mobile phone that runs Trolltech's good old Qtopia phone software" then people would still be queuing up to buy it. "oh, and by the way we're also developing some software of our own and you can try the open alpha if you want to" would be better than this "building the future" sort of stuff - although the latter phrase strictly indicates "it's not ready yet", it's far more evocative and emotional. We think we see our dreams *today* - no wonder people are peeved when they're dashed. Stroller. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community