gta02-core (was Re: OM future)

Wolfgang Spraul wolfgang at sharism.cc
Sat Feb 27 12:21:36 CET 2010


> a) crack open closed phones by reverse engeneering ?
> b) wait for a manufacturer to compromise its pot of gold by producing an open phone ?
> c) put our head in a bag and pretend an iphone or an android is open enough ?
> d) aim at building one collectively despite all the unbelievers trying to discourage
>    the effort ?

d)

And Mickey is right :-)
Wolfgang

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:46:47AM +0100, rixed at happyleptic.org wrote:
> You can't just separate software from hardware. The fact is you can't have
> open software without hardware specs, so open soft and open hard comes close
> together. Go try to rebuild a kernel on a nokia "open" phone for instance,
> and see what part of the phone hardware still works.
> 
> So what should we do ?
> 
> a) crack open closed phones by reverse engeneering ?
> b) wait for a manufacturer to compromise its pot of gold by producing an open phone ?
> c) put our head in a bag and pretend an iphone or an android is open enough ?
> d) aim at building one collectively despite all the unbelievers trying to discourage
>    the effort ?
> 
> 
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