Rick <none@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:32:56 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:04:16 -0500, Rick wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:21:49 +0200, Hadron wrote: (snip)
>>>>
>>>> I have no problems with Linux on cell phones.
>>>
>>> The why do you call them LieLow?
>>>
>>>> I do have a problem with
>>>> sycophantic morons like you "me too"ing to an obvious dud like the
>>>> OpenMoko phone that can not even make a call this time in its
>>>> development!
>>>
>>> And, AGAIN, you CANNOT reasonably call the OpenMoko platform a dud at
>>> the moment.
>>
>> You cannot reasonably call the OpenMoko platform a phone at the moment
>> either.
>>
>> Who ever heard of a phone that can't reliably make phone calls?
>>
>> Only in the Linux world!
>
> .. and you continue to diss something you obviously know nothing about.
In fact, that was the criticism of many WinCE devices - that they were
okay computers, but terrible phones. Linux ones are much better.
>
>>
>>
>> Your point?
>
> Vice President, OpenMoko:
> "Everybody wants to call it a phone, but from the beginning I wanted to
> call it 'a computer with GSM'. Everybody wants it in that category, and I
> want it out of that category."
>
> Read the whle thing:
><http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/
> when_is_a_phone.html>
>
>
>
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