Hi Marco On 1/3/09 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > > We asked Raster to integrate this keypad into Om 2008 and extend it > to > > > make it more hacker friendly (i.e., usable from places like the > > > terminal). After two months of more or less silence he showed us > his own > > > version, written from scratch. The design was a work in progress. > And > > > the dictionary was far inferior to what Qtopia had already. An > internal > > > battle started that lasted until one month before Om 2008 was set > to be > > > released when our product manager, Will Lai, couldn't take it > anymore. > > > He asked another engineer to just get the Qtopia keypad working. > > Ok, I understand this. But, why have you asked Raster to improve a > thing > (like qtopia-x11) that should have been only a kind of placeholder? > Wasn't it considered in a such way at that time?
For the same reason we used Qtopia in the first place: We needed to balance the long term goals of the project with the short term necessity of making enough money to stay in business. This is always a difficult tradeoff to make. Happy New Year. -Sean _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
