On 29 Jan 2007, at 09:52, Mike wrote:
The linux community *overall* quietly wants linux to be a walled-
off OSS
only world. They have never quite been comfortable with commercial
apps
running on the linux platform.
It's quite common to mistake the vocal minority for the overall will
of the community. I can't be 100% sure that's the case here, since
there is no comprehensive survey of the "linux community", but it is
a common problem. Quite a few people can't be stuffed to get involved
in the flame wars and would rather just focus on the code.
For most of the rest, I agree with you. For me, the attraction of the
OM phone is the functionality that I can build on it, not that it's
only loaded with 100% Free Software. Few, if any, other phones grant
us this level of access. I'm really looking forward to the cool apps
and ideas that flow when we free our phones ...
Ken
P.S.
"only-OSS-third-party-application-friendliness", then we've got
linux all
over again, and suffer the same marginalized fate of 0.39% (desktop
market) after a full 15 years.
I work in a company with 100% Linux desktops, except for the OSX
laptops floating around. The desktop's ready for the workplace, but
there's a lot of intertia to overcome.
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