I clearly don't blame the developers here myself. I blame Openmoko's selfish management (probably it's board of directors or C*Os) for this. I am sure that a developer who talks back against this will just get fired/have to face bad consequences.
What would be the best way to 'convince' or 'force' the management to change their decisions? Does anyone know a lawyer? -Karthik On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Paul <pault...@gmail.com> wrote: > My experience, as I'm sure with many other people, with my freerunner > has been frustrating most of the time. To say, its all on the user is > wrong. Granted the community could be better, however, its hard to > contribute when everything is so fragmented. > > For instance, about the echo problem, one of the developers for > OpenMoko stated "Since there are different hw versions out there (a5, > a6, a7), it's impossible to provide one alsa state file that suits all > models." Wait a sec. If the developers know the issues, What's > preventing the if statement that would prevent hundreds of hours of > tweaking, testing, and frustration for the community? > > 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. What the community DOES expect is > basic support, for starters a phone that makes calls without echoing, > doesn't drop connection and sends and receives text messages reliably > as the Number 1 priority. If I'm not mistaken, the majority of the > working code in OpenMoko is from Trolltech. In addition FSO has a > very nice distro and the Freerunner isn't even its main device. Yet > more than 1 year AFTER the release of the 1974, we still have MAJOR > issues from a basic install of Om. Then we read stuff like this. > > "OM is moving more focus to gta03 now, so my current resource for > qtopia is fairly limited." > > It becomes evident that FIC and Openmoko cares less about creating > reliably working software then it does about moving products. (not > blaming the developers here, they get pressure) Follow the next link > and I think I've made my case. > > http://www.cafepress.com/openmoko_inc > > Now with that said, I will be posting online my howtos including > scripts to make a kinda stable variant of FDOM soon. Been too busy > reflashing my phone. > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Karthik Kumar <karthikku...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You should have fixed the GTA02 months back, when you released it. >> Instead, you people are working on GTA03/Neo Whatever. It proves that >> you don't care about the community, You just care about the bunch of >> people who might want to buy your upcoming phones, who sponsor your own >> selfish causes and suffer while you are working on GTA04. > > -- > Paul > Email - pault...@gmail.com > > There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through > which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. > Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > support@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support > _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support