Goodbye OpenMoko. We Hardly Knew Ye...

[Claudio]

http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?s ... /04/228240

Here's hoping that the community will somehow keep this alive. It is FOSS after all.

[dpkgregor]

oh crud

[Patrick]

Just the other day I was thinking that OpenMoko had gone eerily silent. No progress reports, no announcements just silence. The mobile phone business requires a lot of money to get going. Honestly I've never heard of FIC until I heard of the OpenMoko. My hopes rest with Android.

[Claudio]

Just the other day I was thinking that OpenMoko had gone eerily silent. No progress reports, no announcements just silence. The mobile phone business requires a lot of money to get going. Honestly I've never heard of FIC until I heard of the OpenMoko. My hopes rest with Android.

I had only known FIC from the budget motherboards they made for PCs, but was quite surprised at the time to find out that they were developing a complete phone for OpenMoko. I had high hopes for it, and I am rather sad to see this happen, but I have to wonder if we might have to thank OpenMoko for putting the idea out there, so much so that it caused Google to come up with a solution that did implement Linux like OpenMoko did.

[MattKingUSA]

Oh well, it should have been out for 2 years already.

[Patrick]

And another report confirming this:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8568412362.html

And this:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news ... -phone.ars

[eddie]

I am sure it is only a coincidence, but MS is about to come out with a new phone and openmoko is winding back the project. hmmm......

[Colin]

Just had a good laugh

I’d just like to take a moment, and lament about all the top notch features we could have had with a truly open source phone like the FreeRunner.

* grep’ing through your address book using extended regular expressions
* finger’ing your Fav Five
* Having 10 different competing UI’s packaged by dozens of different distributions
* Being able to ssh to your phone so that you can check it’s uptime
* Using PGP to sign your SMS messages. Beware though, after the signature, you’ll only have 5 characters left to work with.
* Sending people videos in ogg theora format
* Losing data randomly with ext4
* Unloading the kernel module for the asterisk button because I never use it
* Changing your keypad to dvorak layout, where the most commonly used numbers are in the middle row
* Using gkrellm to monitor you battery power, as it is slowly sucked away by gkrellm
* More efficiently using your tiny screen with a tiling window manager
* Running only free and open javascript
* Warning users that their keypad lock password is not strong enough
* E17, some day. No, really, someday.

from http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2009/04 ... unner.html