Hello. On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 21:34, Ben F-W wrote: > Stefan Schmidt wrote: > > > >Porting the apps from OpenMoko over to Qtopia is a real pita. No new > >kernel features, X instead of framebuffer, gtk instead of qt. Writing > >it from scratch seems easier for me. > > > Ah, now I understand what you mean!
Nice. (/me makes another dash on his explain-people-the-open-source-way-of-thinking list). ;) > What I was essentially getting at here is what's called 'sustained > competitive differentiation' in marketing-speak. That means that to > break into this market, FIC would have to have a long-term advantage > over rivals that they were unable to copy - or which, by the time > they've copied it, is out of date. What concerned me about the GPL'd > 'killer app' is that there was nothing to stop a rival company just > taking the program and putting it onto their own handset - which > wouldn't contravene the GPL as I understand it. Competitive > differentiation lost. That's the way most business people thinking. After a better understanding of the facts companies are still able to have a good business with open source software on their devices. > This does rest on the assumption that the rival's system isn't based on > X and GTK and so on, which would mean there could still be a problem. At this point the company would think twice why they not just use OpenMoko. And FIC is interested in other companies using OpenMoko. regards Stefan Schmidt
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