Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-07 Thread Thomas HOCEDEZ
Hi Gennady, I'm proud of your answer. My idea for the future is based on the FR story. Building a device, that should be sold used immediatly after opening the box (not 2 years after ;-) ). So the nobody person, with just an idea of FOSS (or not) will be taunted, and everyone like here too.

Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-07 Thread Thomas HOCEDEZ
On 06/10/2010 19:37, Christoph Pulster wrote: Once again my rants, Touchbook from A.I. is a piece of crap. Pointing with the stylus on the touchscreen and the device is bending back to the table. This problem was solved 20 years ago with Psion Series 3. Besides case has a ugly plastic touch

Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-07 Thread swap38
Le 07/10/2010 14:42, Thomas HOCEDEZ a écrit : This project can represent a 'step 2' of the Freerunner/Free phone adventure, there is one big chance to do something this way, and I will do whatever I can to make it happen. AstHrO. +1 :) /Swap38

Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-06 Thread Paul Fertser
openm...@pulster.de (Christoph Pulster) writes: an intelligent marketing idea. My idea on the later is, to point the finger in the Apple direction and naming the evil by name. This sounds really cool to me, Christoph. Honestly, i'd prefer to see more Apple (and Android as well) bashing. But do

Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-06 Thread Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau
Touchbook possible was a piece of crap. But new revision (Smartbook) looks really better. 1. resistive screen + stylus = multitouch capacitive screen 2. detachable core with screen - MID 3. and if phone functionality will be added to MID, it will became awesome device It doesn't matter that it

Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-06 Thread Gennady Kupava
Hey, Paul, disagree with your idea about impossibility of commercial success of opensource device. Declaimer: all things below is just my opinion, which is formed mostly by reading community ml from time to time in past. It would be interesting to read where and why i am wrong. :) В Срд,

Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-06 Thread Ben Thompson
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:59:47PM +0400, Gennady Kupava wrote: Hey, Paul, disagree with your idea about impossibility of commercial success of opensource device. Declaimer: all things below is just my opinion, which is formed mostly by reading community ml from time to time in past. It