Re: Appeals to Linux hardware hackers?

2007-07-26 Thread Mark
I agree that they have a different motivation, but I do think they can be useful to our community. What we need to do is try to get them to hack OpenMoko onto proprietary phones. It will not only get them looking at and improving our software, but I think it would be funny to see people start

Re: Appeals to Linux hardware hackers?

2007-07-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 25.07.2007 um 21:14 schrieb Giles Jones: Hi, I was thinking, there's a few people who are spending time hacking away at HTC devices to get Linux running on them. While it is commendable they would be better to help us with OpenMoko. Maybe we could appeal to them if we're not already

Re: Appeals to Linux hardware hackers?

2007-07-25 Thread Giles Jones
On 25 Jul 2007, at 20:21, Jay Vaughan wrote: For sure the efforts of the Zaurus crowd, the GP2X crowd, the OLPC crowd, the Nokia 770 crowd, and the iPod Linux crowd can be exploited with OpenMoko .. so much diversity is inevitable, and good imho .. True, but why buy a device

Appeals to Linux hardware hackers?

2007-07-25 Thread Giles Jones
Hi, I was thinking, there's a few people who are spending time hacking away at HTC devices to get Linux running on them. While it is commendable they would be better to help us with OpenMoko. Maybe we could appeal to them if we're not already on their radar. Thoughts? Giles.