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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=250211117-28042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>To me, the title of this thread seems very strange, as if
engineering and community is mutually exclusive.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=250211117-28042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If this is primarily a developer platform, why are there so
many intense opinions about such superficial things as color and marketing
anyways?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=250211117-28042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Personally, I was expecting that once the platform is
absolutely solid, flexible, etc, then would be the time to release various
versions forms of the hardware to suit particular marketing niches.
That will come in due time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=250211117-28042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If people want to get involved outside of "hard"
engineering why not dig into gui look-and-feel? If that's still too
technical, then maybe there's just not the room someone's looking for in this
particular project.. Really that's ok and to sometimes be
expected.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=250211117-28042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I mean marketing is really just "how to sell" and that's
entirely up to the company taking the financial risk for this particular
product, imho.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=250211117-28042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Matt</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
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[mailto:community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>hank
williams<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 28, 2008 12:54 PM<BR><B>To:</B> List for
Openmoko community discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Engineering Driven vs.
Community Driven (was Re: Ugliness)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I have to say my unvoiced thoughts were the same as Ryan's. I was not
at all clear why a call for the community to help figure marketing stuff out
would be met by a request to take the discussion off list as though it was
somehow inappropriate for public discussion. It seemed like a very strange
response. Now reading the responses to Ryan's comments seem even more strange. I
feel like I am missing something because the responses to Ryan's comments seem
on the surface, inappropriate as well.<BR><BR>Hank<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Ryan Prior <<A
href="mailto:ryanprior@gmail.com">ryanprior@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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I never said anything about a conspiracy - I just thought I'd point out
that<BR>
<DIV>> it strikes me as strange to respond to somebody's call to open up
a process<BR>> and involve the community by asking that person to make
their communications<BR>> private!<BR><BR></DIV>So according to you, it
should not be possible to talk with people<BR>outside the mailing
list?</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV><BR>I did not say anything quite so bold, and you've completely missed my
meaning. Please go back and read the thread again - my comment is purely a
reaction the circumstances under which the request for secrecy
arrived.<BR></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Openmoko
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