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: FSO & Android (was: Sad Story)

2008-12-16 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Please don't mix teams, distributions, and efforts. FSO is an initiative building a dbus-based framework for mobile devices, 100% funded by Openmoko. The FSO team evolved out of Openmoko's Framework Team. FSO provides a dbus API and a reference implementation that is supposed to run on as many d

Re: FSO & Android (was: Sad Story)

2008-12-16 Thread Paul
Wolfgang, Thank you for your reply. I now understand the situation better. My previous impression was that FSO and OM had a significantly different code base and not terribly compatible with each other. In any case, I am still hopeful for OM. The usability team, I felt, was exactly what OM nee