Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
ly impacted users, > which allows the format to grow in popularity." Yeah it's a trap. Wolfgang On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:10:17PM +0200, Joachim Ott wrote: > 2009/9/10 Al Johnson : > > On Thursday 10 September 2009, rakshat hooja wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 a

Re: MP3 'capable' [was: Meida player.]

2009-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Again: I'm not a lawyer. The details may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Lawyers also know how to stay in business :-) Wolfgang On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 08:38:44PM +0530, rakshat hooja wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Wolfgang Spraul > wrote: > > > Rakshat,

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
early separated. Wolfgang On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:57:34PM +0530, rakshat hooja wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Wolfgang Spraul > wrote: > > > CQIT, > > > > > Intone I don't have. But thanks for the advice I will try. Does it play > > only ogg

Re: Meida player.

2009-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
CQIT, > Intone I don't have. But thanks for the advice I will try. Does it play only > ogg or also mp3? Also curious about m...@intone, I hope it does not play MP3. Until all patents have safely expired I would not want to touch MP3... Wolfgang On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 12:26:11AM -0700, CQIT Con

Re: Re: Delete me

2009-07-11 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Robin, > there's been discussion over this before, several people have > pointed out it's a shoddy way to do things. apparently openmoko sign > their own certificates (i think), so it's not recognised as coming > from a certificate authority. It's a long story, but definitely not a 'shoddy way'.

Re: Screen flickering and tearing

2009-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Peter, can you try to post this on the kernel list? openmoko-ker...@lists.openmoko.org Best Regards, Wolfgang On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Peter Strapp wrote: > Hi all, > > I have come across what appears to be quite a nasty little bug. > After a > while the right hand side of the display begin

Re: Experiences with GTA02 and OM2008.12 (was part of the "Brick" thread)

2009-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Wolfgang On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Craig Woodward wrote: > > Wolfgang Spraul wrote: >> Repeating rumors again and again still doesn't make them true. > > Is this a rumor? PLEASE CLARIFY. Will the GTA01 continue to get > software support from OM in it'

Re: Experiences with GTA02 and OM2008.12 (was part of the "Brick" thread)

2009-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
onal GTA01 in Taipei Anything else? Thanks and Best Regards, Wolfgang On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Craig Woodward wrote: > > Wolfgang Spraul wrote: >> Repeating rumors again and again still doesn't make them true. > > Is this a rumor? PLEASE CLARIFY. Will the G

Re: Experiences with GTA02 and OM2008.12 (was part of the "Brick" thread)

2009-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Craig, > The GTA01 folks waited almost 2 years and now OM has dropped support > for that device, so they're stuck with a puck. OM has clearly said > they will NOT be working on GTA01 and more, and there's not a stable > image for it, probably never will be. Repeating rumors again and again

Re: Once a whiner

2009-01-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Gothnet, > Will do, was going to wait a few weeks - Milestone 5 is out sometime > this > month IIRC? Yes, according to the roadmap it's January 31st: http://trac.freesmartphone.org/roadmap Wolfgang On Jan 10, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Gothnet wrote: > > > > Markku wrote: >> >> I'd just like to say,

FSO & Android (was: Sad Story)

2008-12-15 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Paul, > create a working phone. Passing the buck to FSO is passing the torch > to someone else. This is what OM has done. We are funding FSO. This is called teamwork :-) FSO concentrates on the framework, and standardizing interfaces for mobile phones. FSO = freesmartphone.org Openmoko concen

Re: Sad Story

2008-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Sargun, thanks, agree with you. > I want someone from FR (steve mosher? sean moss?) to post updates and > a timeline. I want them to say when things will be fixed, what exact > developments are going on at OM, etc... This has to be on a regular > basis. They -need- a blog or a similar method to pu

Re: Sad Story

2008-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Karthik, > this. I am sure that a developer who talks back against this will just > get fired/have to face bad consequences. Honestly, together with pretty much everything else you say, it's wrong. In fact internally I am known as the one who kicks people if they don't post publicly :-) Your pr

Re: Sad Story

2008-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Paul, > Let's be honest here FIC is making a pretty penny off of OpenMoko, > using very old hardware selling at a premium price (2.5g not even > EDGE). Yet we are OK with that. If you don't know you shouldn't pretend to know. I applaud the brave investors we have, we have a long way to go to m

Re: OM2007.2

2008-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Jay, > Not me! I witnessed all the work that went into OM 2007.2 over the > last couple of years - including the days of OE - and when it was all > chucked out for 'the new stuff' it was, frankly, a bit miserable. The only thing that was 'chucked out' was the matchbox window manager. It was a

Re: OM2007.2

2008-07-30 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Lon, ASU will turn into OM 2008.8 Eventually FSO will turn into OM 2009 or so. From Openmoko's perspective, it's one 'stream' of images, and we care a lot about application compatibility. So for example for OM 2008.8, we want all OM 2007.2 apps to work. Like tangoGPS. We want it to be easy for