Archive for the tag 'android'

Mar 17 2010

Why free software applications are a priority on mobile platforms (not device drivers)

Published by Stef under business, community, eng, funambol

Bradley wrote about mobile software freedom, a field that I’m obviously deep into because of my work at Funambol. His quite long article Musings on Software Freedom for Mobile Devices contains an analysis of the situation, which mobile platforms are more freedom-promising and why (in short: Maemo/Moblin merged as Meego and Android/Linux). I only disagree [...]

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Apr 06 2009

Mobile phone markets are designed to split our community

Published by Stef under community, eng, fsf

Apple’s iPhone biggest innovation is its mobile app store: for the first time it allowed installing software on the mobile device with the convenience of any modern GNU/Linux distribution. Like in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, installing software is just a matter of browsing a repository and click on a button. It’s such a good idea that [...]

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Jan 31 2008

Make Funambol work on QTopia, get paid and get a free phone

Published by Stef under eng, funambol

Why wait until summer to code and earn $3,000? Funambol has just announced the availability of a $3,000 bounty to develop a plugin to allow Funambol to run on Qtopia devices. Trolltech, the makers of Qtopia, was just acquired this week by Nokia and as a result, Qtopia will become more commonly used.
Trolltech and [...]

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Nov 16 2007

È tempo di cioccolata o dei cioccolatai?

Published by Stef under it, misc, politica

Negli ultimi giorni ho assistito ad alcuni episodi deprimenti. Google ha escluso agli italiani la possibilità  di partecipare al concorso per lo sviluppo di applicazioni per Android, e questo di per sè non è piacevole. Ancora di più sono stati alcuni commenti che ho letto da parte di persone molto intelligenti e capaci [...]

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