Bitter much? : ) On Wed, 06 May 2009 18:09:35 +1000 Dale Maggee <anti...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > > The community work seems to be slowing down now (because of the > > summer?) > > My guess would be that a whole lot of people have realised that their > $400 Neo is better used as a boat anchor, and put them on ebay. or in > the microwave. > > > OM2009 testing 2 was released some days ago. So far ~3 e-mails on > > the list about it. > > New version of Mokomaze was released some days ago, too. Around 50 > > mails. To me this tells that people are more interested in Mokomaze > > than OM2009. > > Agreed - more people are interested in mokomaze, because they know > what kind of godawful crap to expect from OM and are avoiding it like > swine flu... which is strangely poetic IMHO (the metaphor of "Neo as > Swine Flu", that is). > > I'm starting to think that OM's real goal has always been to *not* > produce a working distro, in the hopes that some genius would come > along and do it for them. At which point they could say "we don't > need to make it work, Guy X has given us the excellent Distro Y"... > > I mean, look at it from the company's perspective: They already have > your money, and they know that they're totally mismanaged and will die > out before producing another device. Also they're a dodgy Taiwanese > company which makes them very difficult to prosecute under the > consumer protection laws of less dodgy countries (even though they are > technically legally bound by those laws), so what's in it for them to > produce working software? > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFKAUW/FbVnQRV3OEYRAq9RAJ9rObFB6hKp2V149Nh77rZdtZD34gCfRDAd > klJyMizgksoWzba1EEJ6MKU= > =R3Vr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community