LWN: Comments on "OpenMoko.org goes public"

OpenMoko.org goes public

elicriffield — 2007-02-15T07:50:14+00:00

Hell yeah i wanted to buy some stock.

I can't wait to put more money behind what i think is a great idea but the rest of the world could care less about :)

DAMN YOU FLYING CAR!

Eli Criffield

jstAusr — 2007-02-15T03:45:53+00:00

"goes public" isn't "Going Public" either.

Come on admit it, you just wanted to buy some stock ;)

elicriffield — 2007-02-15T03:14:28+00:00

"Opened public access to"

A wiki and some mailing list isn't "Going Public" We all know what "Going Public" means.

This is an annoying play on words that causes misleading headlines. Remeber people 90% of us only read the headline.

Eli Criffield
Waiting to overhear "Whats OpenMoko's stock ticker again"

laf0rge — 2007-02-15T02:57:01+00:00

Well, there is an OpenMoko, Inc. as a legal body behind the project.

And yes, openmoko.com will be the 'commercial' homepage of the project, with web store, etc.

leoc — 2007-02-15T00:49:32+00:00

I think it's a company too.

paravoid — 2007-02-15T00:42:02+00:00

Well, that's what I thought too.
However, browsing through the source revealed the following copyright statement:
* (C) 2006-2007 by OpenMoko, Inc.

cjb — 2007-02-15T00:18:36+00:00

OpenMoko isn't a company: FIC is a (Taiwanese) company, creating a phone called the Neo1973, running a software platform called OpenMoko.