Just didnt want to delete it, so spoiler'd.
Spoiler
.... that's sad, I'd have used The Box over the current appstore any day. TBH I dont use the current appstore (too much a PITA for my schedule).
But regarding dflemstr's reasons, quote: "The Pandora project doesn't embrace open source. They haven't allowed any major contributions from the community to the core image at all." I think they've been easier to work with than some others. OTOH I dont know what is a "major contribution" in his context. If you've middle clicked on your pandora with the nubs, it is a proof that something somebody non-OP did has gotten in, or ran at OPP5, or... (sorry, my bias is inevitable
). Of course these have been minor feature additions. But to do something
major and get it in takes a lot of time, iterating & testing on many open source projects, and you often need to do it all on your own.
eg. I spent about two months ("a summer", cant remember more exactly) on getting a simple documented (open source) external serial port based flasher protocol driver into flashrom. I'm still pretty proud of my design TBH, but it was a big task to get it in, and took a lot of ping-pong
on the mailing list (on that note, I think openpandora should get one for OS development, could boost collaboration, but YMMV...), etc...
On the other hand I think craigix was a bit over when he said that we would have been in trouble had the box been adopted as the official appstore and then (for some other reason) dflemstr had quit. It was (/would have been?) open source (AFAIK) anyways, and propably run on ED's servers, so what would the problem have been?... This is all sad & useless drama if you ask me.
.... that's sad, I'd have used The Box over the current appstore any day. TBH I dont use the current appstore (too much a PITA for my schedule).
But regarding dflemstr's reasons, quote: "The Pandora project doesn't embrace open source. They haven't allowed any major contributions from the community to the core image at all." I think they've been easier to work with than some others. OTOH I dont know what is a "major contribution" in his context. If you've middle clicked on your pandora with the nubs, it is a proof that something somebody non-OP did has gotten in, or ran at OPP5, or... (sorry, my bias is inevitable
). Of course these have been minor feature additions. But to do somethingmajor and get it in takes a lot of time, iterating & testing on many open source projects, and you often need to do it all on your own.
eg. I spent about two months ("a summer", cant remember more exactly) on getting a simple documented (open source) external serial port based flasher protocol driver into flashrom. I'm still pretty proud of my design TBH, but it was a big task to get it in, and took a lot of ping-pong
on the mailing list (on that note, I think openpandora should get one for OS development, could boost collaboration, but YMMV...), etc...
On the other hand I think craigix was a bit over when he said that we would have been in trouble had the box been adopted as the official appstore and then (for some other reason) dflemstr had quit. It was (/would have been?) open source (AFAIK) anyways, and propably run on ED's servers, so what would the problem have been?... This is all sad & useless drama if you ask me.
- Upgrade to 1GHz 
- Pandora in my hands 
