Just wanted to send a quick message to the guys of Intel/Open Hand and everyone who is working and who has previously worked on Moblin.Thank you for your great work thus far, it has gotten me excited about the future of Linux as a platform again from both a users and a developers perspective and I look forward to seeing Moblin evolve on both the Netbook and Desktop in the future. I am incredibly grateful for the work Intel has done on the kernel itself and the UI work Intel has achieved thus far. I think Moblin will be an important player in the next few years in the evolution of the desktop and how we interact with it and I appreciate the vision and understand that this is still just a beta of a first release and how much has been accomplished on multiple levels. I am also very excited about new oppertunities Moblin gives hardware manufacturers and appreciate that rather than restrict hardware manufacturers ability to change how we interact Moblin has taken the first step for change. When Intel gave talks in my secondary school a few years ago and I posed the Intel representatives with questions on opensource commitment I had no idea how much they would contribute later on as I progressed through college.
On a side note, I live about 15 minutes away from Intel's European Headquarters in Shannon, Ireland. Does any Moblin magic happen here? And if so is it possible that maybe, just maybe Intel, Ireland can give some talks around colleges about their work and commitment to OSS. Its kind of discouraging to have players like Google, Sun and Intel in Ireland yet the only talks that are given in colleges are from Microsoft marketing their proprietary solutions. Having such a biased view imposed on students on a regular basis in my view is not healthy for the future progression and growth of the industry. The only thing which it proves useful for is the adoption rate of closed standards and uneducated opinions. So to finish up on what was supposed to be a quick message :) Thanks. _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
