On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:45:38AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On May 5, 2011 11:19 PM, "Freeman" <hew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 08:35:39PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > > > > > > = > > > So, today's poll is: > > > > > > What Smartphone do you use? > > > > > > > Android maybe just got a few points against it in my estimation. > > > > Ya know, I see commercials when I surf the web, solicitations in my mailbox, > and crap on the news. I try to scrutinize what I see as much as possible. > > The point is that Google put Android out as an open source mobile operating > system (great marketing). This is sorta true - there's an open source kernel > and components. However, this ain't linux, bsd, xfree86 or anything else you > might think of as floss. > > It would be sorta dickish to say 'you don't have to use it' and sorta untrue > (Android has most of the smartphone market in the us and soon the world, so > you'll probably run into Android like Windows on a pc). Instead, I would > advise that you look at your options. I moved from a flip phone to a palm to > an iPhone to an Android. I never thought that any of them would be open. > Maybe next I'll get a windows phone - that's as open as Android imo. > > Ps - how is Android related to debian anyway?... just curious if this is > still topical.
Well, there are discussions about bash and nano on d-community-offto...@lists.debian.org . So maybe we are going to do a polar reversal like the magnetic poles of Earth have occasionally done. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110506194416.GA24460@Europa.office
