Hi Joseph,
thanks for your words, they are very much appreciated! Marcus On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:48:54 +0000 Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have founded tangogps and spent over 2000 hours of development on > > it so quite naturally I am the SABDFL of tangogps. And it is a > > rather successful project: it has been picked up by over 25 > > distributions and it has far more than 100.000 happy users in > > pretty much every corner of the world. > > I honestly believe that if it wasn't for TangoGPS, and therefore > yourself Marcus, the initial uptake of the Openmoko devices would have > been much slower. This community owes a great deal to your hard work. > OpenStreetMap has probably benefited too as well. TangoGPS > demonstrated that the Neo1973 and FreeRunner were (are) viable > platforms and that there was (is) value to be gained from a phone > running Open Source software. By "demonstrated" I mean that you could > give the phone to someone, have them walk around outside, and they'd > come back excited about what could be done. > > I remember getting an engineering sample of the FreeRunner and having > many email conversations with Markus about getting TangoGPS to run on > it. It wasn't exactly hard, but I was known to make a mistake or two > along the way; at least in the end TangoGPS was about the first > application I ran on the FreeRunner and I was, I think, the first > person to ever do it. Thankfully Openmoko inc saw the value and sent > Marcus a phone too. > > Thanks for all your contributions Marcus, we all owe you a lot, even > if some people fail to realise that. > > Cheers, Joseph > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community