RE: [Fsfe-uk] Explanation of Tivosiation and problems - comments sought

[Sam Liddicott]

Sorry for the bad quoting. I have a good hardware platform but one that hasn't 
yet been hacked for linux. (M3100 phone)

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From: "Chris Croughton" <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Fsfe-uk] Explanation of Tivosiation and problems - comments       
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:38:09PM +0000, Nic James Ferrier wrote:

>  It's a very small proportion who want to fiddle

True but they fiddle for an awful lot of other people who need things "mending" 
(again)

> I can just see the potential for
>unscrupulous individuals to flood the mobiles with 
>advertising, jam the
>phone and data to the point where it is as bad as email is 
>now.

I don't think he was advocating free and illegal use of the spectrum with 
unbundling of base stations.

Perhaps he meant the kind of phone customization I need. The WM5 mail client is 
a bit of a curates egg, and I would dearly love to be able to scratch the 
itches, so I wait xanadux and xda-developers, the project is nearly at a stage 
where I can join in on my platform - once haret starts loading some kind of 
kernel.

>Although I suspect that your 'soon' and mine are not the 
>same, I doubt
>That it will be economical to build your own phone in the 
>near future
>even with standardised parts.

Or even build a car, even from standardised parts

Sam