[Community] Growing the Community

[Radek Polak]

On Friday, June 14, 2013 04:04:41 PM Bob Ham wrote:

> Freedom *is* a feature over others.
> 
> The question I asked is: why do you think phones need freedom *and*
> something else?  You haven't answered that.

If it was free top model phone (like galaxy 4, hct one) then yes, you are 
right.

But we dont have big full HD display, we dont have thin pretty case from high 
quality material, so i was thinking that we should offer something else 
instead to make it appealing.

> The Freerunner wasn't a "really working" phone when it was brought to
> market.  From what I understand, the software was very incomplete and
> had major problems.  (And attainment of the goal of "really working" was
> actually retarded by Openmoko Inc. during the time the phone was on the
> market as they repeatedly tried to start from scratch.)

You are right that it wasnt, but i dont take the argument these days. You can 
buy really cheap Freerunner and have it nearly perfectly working with 
Androind/QtMoko but nobody is doing it. The reason is that freedom is the only 
feature that others dont have and that is not enough.

Regards

Radek