Re: Free Software on Android

2011-12-29 Thread Elazar Leibovich
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Regarding point 2, wouldn't it be nice if it were possible to have a > programming language which you can use to program the Android, on the > Android itself, and run applications? Applications written in that > language could be downloaded in

Re: Free Software on Android

2011-12-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 01:18:16PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Hi, I recently bought an Android machine (a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0), > and am quite enjoying it. Superficially, it isn't very similar to what > we've come to expect from Linux machines, but in my opinion the Linuxness > still shows

Re: Free Software on Android

2011-12-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Nadav, On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:43:25 +0200 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: Free Software on Android": > > Well, note http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html - I think we shouldn't > > discourage Android FOSS developers from trying to sell their appli

Re: Free Software on Android

2011-12-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Nadav, On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:25:45 +0200 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: Free Software on > Android": > > There is nothing to stop anyone from developing a free app for > > Android but there currently is a high cost of entry into the market, >