new iphone - not interested at all

David Samblas Martinez dsamblas at yahoo.es
Mon Jun 2 16:53:43 CEST 2008


Absolutly and totally agree with you Robert

--- El lun, 2/6/08, Robert Schuster <theBohemian at gmx.net> escribió:

> De: Robert Schuster <theBohemian at gmx.net>
> Asunto: Re: new iphone - not interested at all
> Para: "List for Openmoko community discussion" <community at lists.openmoko.org>
> Fecha: lunes, 2 junio, 2008 10:13
> Hi,
> I for one am completely blind when it comes to proprietary
> technology
> nowadays. I am not interested in any device that offers
> substantially
> less freedom than what is provided by OpenMoko.
> 'Proprietariness' is
> kind of zero factor for me: Multiplied with any cool
> feature factor it
> will cause *zero* exciteness.
> 
> Additionally I am also not interested anymore in devices
> that need to be
> hacked, reverse engineered or lack important drivers (e.g.
> power
> management).
> 
> When it comes to proprietary devices I am also *much* more
> concerned
> about environmental pollution: After all a device that
> implements its
> maker's vision and cannot be freed from it anytime
> becomes useless when
> the next generation appears. If you are a manufacturer of
> such a device
> do mother nature a favor and leave the silicon, oil, copper
> and whatever
> resources you need for it under earth's surface!
> 
> Call me free software zealot, GNU hippy or RMS biggest
> admirer but this
> is my opinion and everyone is completely free to disagree.
> I have a life
> to live (and enjoy) and will not accept random people
> misusing software
> to decide what I can do and what not.
> 
> Regards
> Robert
> 
> Christian Benke schrieb:
> > Good evening!
> > 
> > So who of you is thinking about buying the new iphone
> instead of an
> > openmoko in case the technical specs really
> improve(3G, better
> > resolution)? 
> > I'd love to have a open smartphone, but there are
> so many compromises
> > with the openmoko project(hardware lacks, formfactor,
> > unfinished software) and the timing for the release is
> bad unfortunately
> > (on the other side the people interested in openmoko
> are not
> > necessarily interested in the iphone - However, i
> guess there will be
> > some people who drop the idea of buying a moko after
> next weeks apple
> > conference...) 
> > I feel bad about this decision, i'm not willing to
> use proprietary
> > software anywhere in my environment, neither work nor
> private, but the
> > hardware side of the iphone is presumably better(3G,
> bigger screen) and
> > the software is just _ready_. I'm kind of in a
> dilemma right now, on
> > the one hand i know i'll hate the closeness of OSX
> at some point (Just
> > like it happened with Windows 7 years ago) and would
> love to be able to
> > do what i want with my smartphone, on the other hand
> i'm not a
> > developer (i do some scripting but i'm far from
> any serious software
> > hacking) and i don't have the skills to fix
> annoying bugs and will have
> > to wait another few months till the software is in a
> useable state
> > and a freerunner could get a expensive toy for me if
> development is not
> > accelerating as fast as i expect it to after the
> release :-( 
> > 
> > I guess the freerunner will not get available in the
> next week so i can
> > still decide, probably i'm lucky and all the
> speculations about the
> > iphone are untrue(only 3G is not a (OM-)dealbreaker
> for me) ;-)
> > 
> > My favourite would still be a Nokia E70 with a useable
> linux-OS, i
> > just loved the gullwing formfactor - if just Symbian
> wasn't such a
> > crutch, and a bit more RAM would also not hurt on the
> E70...
> > 
> > my 2 cents
> > Christian
> > 
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