RE: OpenMoko at Embedded Systems Conference?

2007-03-27 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
Hi, Will anyone else from FIC or OpenMoko be there ? Christian On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 14:26 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Thanks for the information. I am afraid that Sean cannot attend this ESC on > 4/1-5 in San Jose. He will be leaving for Paris on 4/3 for attending the

Re: Audio quality and libsamplerate...

2007-03-26 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
Hi, I think that on the topic of resampling OpenMoko should probably look towards the code that Jean-Marc Valin recently wrote for ALSA instead of going with libsamplerate. The reason for this is simply that Jean-Marc Valin code is licensed under the BSD/LGPL license instead of the GPL and thus kee

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenMoko?

2007-03-22 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
elaborate explanation of why I think this is the case. Christian On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:34 +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: > Steven ** wrote: > > How does the GPL prevent mp3 and flash video support? > > > > -Steven > > > > On 3/22/07, Christian F.K. Schaller <

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenMoko?

2007-03-22 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
ce we have gotten, its the legal conclusion most companies and their legal teams make and its the interpretation the FSF has told us they think is the correct one. Christian On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:33 +0100, Nils Faerber wrote: > Christian F.K. Schaller schrieb: > > Gnash would pro

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenMoko?

2007-03-22 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
Gnash would probably be of no interest to any shipping a commercial product as the GPL license of it will conflict with enabling mp3 and flash video support. swfdec is LGPL though so as long as the mp3 and flash video support comes from external libraries it will be fine. Christian On Wed, 2007-

Re: Crossroads

2007-03-14 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
Hi Mike, Why don't you contact your local service provider and ask them if their service plans lock out 3rd party devices? While they can't tell you about the FIC phone specifically they should be able to tell you if they have something in place hindering 3rd party phones from working with their se

Re: Features and promises

2007-02-27 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
I honestly think people need to realize the embedded market is a different animal than the PC market and stop expecting things to be the same in terms of upgrades and support life. This debate reminds me a lot of the debate not long ago when Nokia announced the 880 with a new version of their Maemo

OpenMoko and Multimedia

2007-01-24 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
Hi everyone, Reading the documents I found so far on OpenMoko and the upcoming phone I am wondering what the plans are around Multimedia support. The stack of OpenMoko do share a lot with Mameo, but nothing is specified in terms of the multimedia side apart from saying that there is a 'media play