> I'm happy to be associated with a project that wants to be able to > tinker with even the tinest little part of every bit of the code. > This goes hand in hand with open standards. No one will stop you from > loading whatever plugins become available. But I for one don't want > to pay the Adobe tax to cause those plugins to be written. > > Hank does effectively point out how user demand for compatibility will > be a significant hurdle to widespread phase 2 adoption. > > Eagerly awaiting phase 1, > -erik > This effectively leads the distro developement to the free/premium split that most linux distros encounter. Free distro for the tinkers and for pay one for the ones that find lack of defacto standards (flash+gps vector maps+windows media...) support crippling the device. I believe the second group is major part of phase3 target. The major question is will the price of the second option be still competitive to what other companies will have released by sept.
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