Am 2008-11-04 14:02:14, schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> In other words, I think the carrot has better leverage on them than the
> stick. Of course it all depends on who we???re talking, as the stick will
> work just fine on an obscure Chinese manufacturer but not on a
> world-leading company that sells high-grade hardware at 10 times the
> price.
Thats not all...
I have goten a Chinese Manufacturer who has already build a GSM Module
supporting Voice, SMS, MMS, VideoTelephone, GPRS, EDGE UMTS and HSDPA.
The problem is, that even if it is mass production since some time, I
can not distribute the firmware as open source since it change the
behavour of the hardware which then can distrurb the GSM network.
Attaching a FLASH memory of several MByte to it, would the module make
6 times more expensive... and no one would buy it anymore... And as I
have already written, I do not know HOW OpenMoko will solv this problem,
but FreeRunner/OpenMoko or PurpleMagic are not allowd to run in Europe
with Open Source GSM-Firmware. And of course, PurpleMagic has never
respond to my three E-Mails and one Letter. (they are in France)
This was the last word of the TÜV Rheinland...
The manufacturer MUST asure, that the, e.g., GSM/UMTS network will no be
disturbed...
IF, Debian distribute the OpenMoko Software within Debian, it could harm
the Debian Projecc for legal reason...
And they is some other hardware on which one can not install Debian, IF
the installer has no access to the firmware to activate a device...
And YES, my SmartPhone "Nokia 6120 classic" (ARM926-EJ, 312 MHz, 128 MB
Flash, 64 MByte mobile SDRAM, 8 GByte micoSDHC) is now running EmDebian
but it does not help, if the Firmware written by me, can not be
distributed as Open Source, hence not in /main/ and the installer can
not install anything since you must first upload the firmware to
activate something...
If the Debian CD/DVD/BlueRay do not include the /non-free/ directory or
ship the stuff in /main/ or /contrib/ then there are many devices which
can not be used with Debian, even it should work with it...
Note: There are MANY Open-Source Extremists, which give a fsck on it
and saying: "I would not buy such hardware" but this has NOTHING
to do with the manufacturer but network security and law.
Unfortunately I know several of them (a group) which code there
own GSM firmware but the problem is, if they come in my near and
switch from GPRS to UMTS I lost my GSM connection...
Also there is a Website of a women, which has created a small
hardware which can kick-off GSM devices... She has designed it,
because she was very angry about peoples, using ther cell-phones
to laud in public... Using her device can lead to juridical
actions against the user... Disturbing of Public-Networks.
So ANY hardware which MUST use tested certified hardware and
software can not be used with Debian...
Note 2: Since my Outdoor HandBag TablePC use as Main CPU an i.MX31 and
as GSM Processor a PNX6712 the firmware will be not updatable
from users... I give a fsck on users who say:
"Then I will not buy your hardware!"
because such users are assholes since the can not even Upgrade
the Firmware of there Cell-Phone which is to 99% based on
ARM926-EJ and could run EmDebian witout any problems.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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