Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

[Sebastian Krzyszkowiak]

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Bob Ham <rah at settrans.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 07:50 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
>> Neither the Openmoko, OpenPandora, Ubuntu Edge, GTA04 are
>> "open hardware" - and never were intended to be.
>
> That isn't what your OpenPhoenux page says:
>
>   "Open Hardware Devices.
>
>   Letux 2804 / GTA04 Smartphone"
>
> http://www.openphoenux.org/
>
>
> You're also contradicting your own previous statements:
>
>   "I see the role of GDC [Golden Delicious Computers] to provide future
>   open hardware but remain software agnostic"
>
> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2012-May/066835.html

You're nitpicking about different meanings of "open" and "free". This
discussion is no better than arguments about the freedom of GPL versus
BSD. It leads nowhere.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, dos
http://dosowisko.net/