Free Your Phone

[Declan Naughton]

On 1/21/07, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> On 20/01/07, Declan Naughton <piratepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Join us. "Free Your Phone."
> > > > I totally love this catch phrase! I hope that the FIC marketting uses
> > > > it as the official tagline of all its openmoko devices!
> > >
> > > If freedom is a real goal then I agree.
> >
> > And I'm not so sure that is is. It seems this is more about the
> > technical merit of being community developed, to anything else.
>
> Is this because the GPS daemon is proprietary?

Mostly, it is.

Maybe there's a fairly reasonable explanation, there probably is, but
it's misleading to say or hint that the phone software is entirely
free.

-- 
Declan Naughton