Taiwan-based embedded design firm Openmoko is discontinuing its open-source Linux Neo FreeRunner phone and slashing its staff in half, says an industry report.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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nco71
3 years 6 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago
what a pity
I was following this project and hoping the device will become my next phone. It supported Android and the roadmap seemed attractive ( better and better hardware ). Probably many people where watching the project and waiting for the right hardware ( particulary the support of 3G in Europe )
The possibilities would have been unlimited.
They benefitied for some support and buzz on the social media but probably not enough to reach their sales target.
Compare to other giants, which spend millions of dollars in marketing ... and have more cash flow to constantly invest in new products ( not so innovative anyway , and so closed souce ), there were little they could do.
Openmoko is not finished... maybe just no mature enough. Shareholders , customers , investors don t lose confidence in them
Pat Johnson
3 years 6 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago
Openmoko FreeRunner is alive and well
Development of the Openmoko FreeRunner (codenamed GTA02) continues. Please see the following video with Steve Mosher, Openmoko VP Marketing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8Tsvj2TdQ
The next device the GTA03, whose design was in constant flux, has been suspended and with it some associated layoffs were necessary. Openmoko continues to focus its attention on the FreeRunner, a device that many developers and distributors have built their business around and that has recently gained additional strength in the embedded developer market. See the following videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfo3ehDd2so and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpOU8f8EDmI There is no end of life to the FreeRunner phone.