At the risk of being flamed : State of software

[Attila Csipa]

On Monday 27 August 2007 15:38, Giles Jones wrote:
> I'm in Europe and the greenphone is about twice the cost. You have to
> add in the price of the SDK and licences too. It's a really
> unimpressive deal.

Again, if you're a business and developing commercial software, the cost of a 
SDK means nothing to you - quite the contrary of the case if you are a 
tinkerer-open phone enthusiast. If you look closely at the licenses, you'll 
see that you only really need to pay for licenses and SDKs if you plan on 
developing proprietary, NON-GPL phone applications or you need professional 
support - nothing wrong with that either, IMO.

Apparently, costwise some parts of Europe are quite a bit farther than others 
(which is obviously not OpenMoko's fault but UPS's and the lack of an EU 
dealership). I would have liked to compare the prices for Antarctica (just 
for kicks), but the ordering script dies for most of the more 'exotic' 
countries.

Greenphone Community SDK
    * Development device: $695 USD
    * License fee (GNU GPL v2.0): $0 USD
    * Total cost: $695 USD + shipping/handling ($25 in my case) and applicable 
taxes ($0 in my case) = $720 USD

OpenMoko GTA01-phase1
    * Development device: $300 USD
    * License fee (GNU GPL v2.0): $0 USD
    * Total cost: $300 USD + shipping/handling ($140 in my case) and 
applicable taxes ($145 in my case) = $585 USD

That's a precisely 100 Euros of difference, which is hardly twice the cost...