<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Wolfgang Spraul <span dir="ltr"><wolfgang@sharism.cc></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Just want to say thanks for writing this up!<br>
It's tough, but I think you pretty much sum up the experience of a lof of<br>
people. It's the best that we could achieve (I worked for Openmoko before).<br></blockquote><div><br>I understand - I hope I didn't sound too accusatory... I don't think it's anyone's fault, and in fact I'm very impressed at the improvements that have been made. In my more optimistic moments, I think the FR might at least become a usable phone with limited smartphone capabilities in the near future...<br>
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Sounds like a plan.<br>
We all want a 100% free phone, but we gain nothing from building on sand.<br>
So with the FreeRunner in the state it is, I think development will fragment<br>
for a while, until it comes together again in a new attempt at a 100% free<br>
phone one day. Until then, if the hardware is not stable you cannot do kernel<br>
development, if the kernel is not stable you cannot do middleware, if<br>
middleware is not stable you cannot do apps.<br>
Doing it all at the same time like with the FreeRunner lead to what you<br>
described above.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yeah, I think that's a lot of the problem... when you combine unstable HW with unstable kernel, it's very hard to build a solid phone stack... but I don't think that the work going on now is wasted - it's (slowly) converging towards a pretty good phone stack, and I think once there's a good candidate for decent hardware with a reasonable kernel, it'll be quite impressive. <br clear="all">
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