A first look at the OpenMoko Neo 1973

A first look at the OpenMoko Neo 1973

Posted Aug 31, 2007 21:24 UTC (Fri) by ikm (subscriber, #493)
In reply to: A first look at the OpenMoko Neo 1973 by shane
Parent article: A first look at the OpenMoko Neo 1973

> My belief is that if there was user-hackable mobile software a lot of these issues would be resolved.

...but probably not by the users themselves. Communities are usually more oriented in some general hacking-arounds and writing additional apps, not many people venture to do core changes -- and even when they do, the results are more likely to appear as complete forks. Everything here really depends on the original software vendor itself, which is usually quite reluctant to accept some random changes from the outside. Usually you have to choose from one of the forks out there, and further apply some other random tweaks to get something resembling the thing you've wanted to have. I think that's the main problem with the community participation -- they're too much outside of the process. Can only wish the best for OpenMoko in that respect, but for now I'm with Symbian-based phone, where almost everything is really *very* nicely put -- a thing I have never really experienced in any truly open source solution. Let's just hope things will change in future, though probably it would be a distant one. We need wise, alive and open-minded software vendors, the ones who create and maintain the mainstream version of the software.

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