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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I
think Florent’s point is that your argument is moot; You can rant an rave
all you want but at the end of the day functionality is more important than all
open source.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Likewise
there are going to be commercial applications developed on this handset as it’s
not fairy land open source world but a commercial project being developed here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I
think the less religious arguments here the better this project will be….if
you don’t like it go and write your own gsm stack and then release it for
the community to use.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:black'>Regards,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
From: community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org [mailto:community-</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
bounces@lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Joe Pfeiffer</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
Sent: Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:24 AM</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
To: community@lists.openmoko.org</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
Subject: Re: Widgets: Openmoko/Chumby transproject?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
Florent THIERY writes:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
>> If you're about Macromedia Flash (er, now Adobe), isn't it closed</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
>> source?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
>The neo has a closed source real time OS running the GSM part...</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
OS? It's been said pretty consistently that it's a user-mode daemon.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
Still one more piece of closed source software than I like to see, but</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
not an OS.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>
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