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[Sean Moss-Pultz]

David (and others)

Thanks a lot for sharing your concerns about this decision with me. I
had no idea it would be taken as anything but a good thing moving
forward.

I'm in the States now for an urgent business meeting so I will not
have much time to think about / organize this until the weekend, when
I return to Taiwan.

I will be in touch with you all directly and let's work something out
that meets both of our needs. I'm sure we can do this.

 -Sean


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:32 AM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez
<david at tuxbrain.com> wrote:
>
> Really disappointing for us to , that Sean has decided to not maintain
> an "official" distributors list,
> This drain a little the interest on making business and be so
> participative on making the marketing stuff Openmoko Inc has decided
> not to do.
> I really believe in the project of a freephone, I really believe in of
> open hardware but I'm starting to not believe in Openmoko Inc.
> And Sean please not argue than FreeRunner responsibilities has been
> transfered to community because hardware are still sold  by Openmoko
> Inc.
>
> Regards from a very sad distributor
>
> David Reyes Samblas Martinez
> http://www.tuxbrain.com
> Open ultraportable & embedded solutions
> Openmoko, Openpandora,  Arduino
> Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!!
>
>
>
>
> 2009/11/30 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at computer.org>:
> >
> > Am 30.11.2009 um 08:14 schrieb Christoph Pulster:
> >
> >>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributors
> >>
> >> Being one of your resellers, I appreciate your effords.
> >
> > Also being one of the resellers, I admit that I am not at all happy
> > with how this list is treated. What I really expect is that the
> > manufacturer who has a network of distributors takes care of listing
> > them properly. And not through an anonymous community.
> >
> > Unfortunately Sean declined to continue responsibility. So they simply
> > linked to the wiki page. And only after insisting to at least inform
> > the community, he wrote this request to find a volunteer.
> >
> > Translated into bold words it means: "We, Openmoko, have no interest
> > in organizing anything that helps that our products are being provided
> > to interested parties. And the community will solve our problems."
> >
> >> The list of distributors badly needs an update. Not on the wiki, but
> >> in
> >> real life.
> >>
> >> I think it is confusing for the customer to see so many shops listed,
> >> which are obviously not seem to be active anymore. English shop
> >> Truebox
> >> and German Trisoft to mention just two (both still have a christmas
> >> 2008
> >> offer online...).
> >
> > I think you just want less competition being visible - raising your
> > own visibility :)
> > We have an open market and everyone can display his own offer as good
> > as he likes.
> >
> > And, (especially for the Freerunner) I believe in educated customers
> > who can compare themselves what the best and most up-to-date offer is.
> > And they can IMHO also convert and compare currencies.
> >
> >> Besides, a lot of resellers quit selling Openmoko products, because
> >> they
> >> are unhappy how it worked out in the past. Swedish Openmoko.se shop
> >> and
> >> Spanish Blitz shop to mention just two.
> >
> > It is the lack of sales organization of Openmoko which makes it
> > difficult for distributors to continue to work with them.
> >
> >
> > Nikolaus
> > http://www.handheld-linux.com
> >
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