thomas.cooksey at bt.com wrote: >Fantastic news! What works? Looking at the youtube videos, it appears that the phone, SMS, bluetooth & power management are all working? Can you actually place and recieve calls? > >I'm sure OpenMoko development will continue, but a good question is why? I don't really want to start a flame war, but I do think the question should raised. Why spend so much effort creating yet another GTK+ based framework? What would happen if all the people working on OpenMoko focused their efforts on improving Qtopia on the neo instead? Surely we'd get a fast, stable and functional phone stack a lot quicker? > > >Cheers, > >Tom
You are absolutely right, that question needs to be answered or I'm starting to se the Linux on the desktop epic fail all over again. I posted some design suggestions a couple of days ago, I was told to check the new openmoko version and I was going to but now I've discovered this issue about qtopia I'm gonna have to wait to see what platform gets more traction. Just like the QT/GTK problem on the desktop we are heading into a long term fragmentation that won't go away: - I've worked with QT and it's clearly superior and I'm willing to bet it's energetically more efficient since it doesn't have the X overhead (can anybody measure? this is very important). - But QT is not free (as in beer) for commercial usage and I'm sure the openmoko leadership doesn't want to discourage people from starting commercial ventures on openmoko, and neither should we, because it's interesting that we have that kind of choice. So, we really need a word from the openmoko leadership, please, step in and tell us that you will focus on providing the same kind of platform that qtopia provides, so we can bet on the more free (but currently technically inferior) openmoko option, otherwise there's not reason for us to use openmoko and then we'll have a platform "locked-in" by qt (for commercial usage) or a fragmented scenario. And this is very damaging, it means half of the developers are no working in openmoko programs. And no, "choice is good" doesn't apply to everything, that's why we have standards so stop repeating that dangerous fallacy. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community