Will GTK be used in Openmoko?

Steven Kurylo sk at infinitepigeons.org
Tue May 20 03:14:29 CEST 2008


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Rod Whitby <rod at whitby.id.au> wrote:
> Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
>>
>> Well, I much appreciate your work and your openness with community,
>> unfortunately I can't say the same about Openmoko in this occasion since
>> this should be an Open company and so I'd have appreciated it more if the
>> decision would have been debated before with developers and active part of
>> community (= people writing code) in public lists.
>
> I guess the question is whether Openmoko Inc. ever promised that the
> contents of the rootfs for the phone that they sell will be determined by
> some sort of community consensus.
>
> If I remember correctly, they only promised to provide an open software
> platform upon which *you* can create your own personalised rootfs.  By
> including both toolkits, they have not changed anything you experience with
> respect to this promise.

And you'd end up arguing about the colour of the bike shed none stop.
Some decisions openmoko just needs make to deliver us a phone.


-- 
Steven Kurylo




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