Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

[Sebastian Krzyszkowiak]

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Bob Ham <rah at settrans.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 13:34 +0200, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
>
>> You're nitpicking about different meanings of "open" and "free".
>
> This is hardly nitpicking.  If I had known what Nikolaus's position was
> back in 2010, I doubt I would ever have bought a GTA04.  There seems to
> be (1) the meaning that Nikolaus gives "free hardware" and "open
> hardware"; and (2) the meaning everyone else gives "free hardware" and
> "open hardware".
>
> It seems to me that Nikolaus has falsely advertised the GTA04, and is
> continuing to do so.

I think everything needed to evaluate if GTA04 is an "open hardware"
as in your dictionary was already available before ordering. Still,
GTA04 is in this regard just as free as GTA02 and maybe even more
(there were no schematics for GTA02 published on launch, and even now
not all of them are publicly available. And those which are, are also
only in PDFs)

In my dictionary, it's definitely free platform. One of the only ones
in mobile world. But yes, I can agree that the usage of "free
hardware" term may be a bit confusing.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, dos
http://dosowisko.net/