<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/14 Tim Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Wolfgang Spraul <<a href="mailto:wolfgang@openmoko.com">wolfgang@openmoko.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Openmoko actually has learnt a lot from this. First we have learnt to<br>
> not trust high-level promises as much as before.<br>
> In fact I would go as far as saying that going forward, we will not<br>
> trust any promises about 'we will open this up later' anymore.<br>
> Either it's open and documented at the time we make the decision to<br>
> use those chips, or we look elsewhere.<br>
> I believe that's what our customers want.<br>
<br>
</div>Agreed, and awesome.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> We have a long way to go to come out with kick-ass open phone<br>
> hardware, but if our community doesn't loose faith and continues to do<br>
> development together with us, we'll get there. The momentum we have<br>
> built with the Freerunner is awesome. Please continue to buy<br>
> Freerunners and to develop for it, same is happening internally. The<br>
> next phones will build on top of the free platform we have built<br>
> together, the technology investment will carry over.<br>
<br>
</div>*crosses fingers and hopes*<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> Having said that, if someone wants to seriously develop for the glamo,<br>
> please get in touch with me and we will find a legally correct way to<br>
> extend the smedia documentation to you.<br>
> In fact we have done that in a few cases before already, but I'm not<br>
> sure how much actual codes have come out of that. I think very<br>
> little ;-)<br>
> So we need some really serious coders that don't mind a tough challenge.<br>
<br>
</div>I am not a skilled developer, but I would be more than happy to<br>
organize, and participate in a traditional clean room<br>
re-implementation of the documentation.<br>
<br>
As a GTA02 owner, as a founding member of the Open Graphics Project,<br>
as a Director of the Open Hardware Foundation, I believe I have the<br>
resources to accomplish such a task.<br>
<br>
I'd love to try.<br>
<br>
Can we make it happen?<br>
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--tim<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Up for this request Wolfgang :)<br>