E-Dribble

Remember when I told you that the Openmoko phone was dead in the water?  Well, it seems that my informants at /. might have jumped the gun and now state that the phone is actually still being developed.  Hey, you can hardly blame me.  I just regurgitate all the crap that I find.

I understand that some of you may be under the mistaken assumption that I enjoy these FOSS failures, which would be untrue.  I’m the largest proponent of open source that you will find.  However, I don’t feel that you should get bonus points for developing open source apps if you’re incompetent.  From the complaints rolling in concerning the Openmoko platform, it’s indeed being handled by idiots.  Most complaints concern the fact that the devs concentrate on  bells and whistles while users can not actually successfully make a phone call on the phone.  During the development process it remained a fact that they couldn’t make a phone call, but the interface looks prettier than it did when they couldn’t make a phone call a year ago.

I bet you couldn’t guess that I’m blogging this from my OLPC while I call my publisher on my Neo Freerunner.