I hope for that as well! I'm prepared to contribute my share. On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:51 PM A. James Lewis <ja...@fsck.co.uk> wrote:
> I definitely hope the work can be continued as an independent project.... > > On 05/04/17 19:34, Seth Ciango wrote: > > This is liberating if we allow it to be. We're no longer forced to be Snap > only while tethered to Unity8. We finally have control over the future of > this project. The developer team needs to speak to the community on this. > > - Who is willing to stick around? > - How difficult would a switch to GNOME be and how long would it take? > - What current phones on the market could the community target based > upon their openness and compatible hardware/drivers? > > We do not NEED Canonical or phone manufacturers. We truly thank them for > getting us here. All the effort by the Ubuntu Phone team has been amazing > and is greatly appreciated. > > We all backed this phone project financially and with hours of our lives. > Hours that we spent debugging, coding, helping someone else. Hours that we > could have spent with friends and family or on other projects. > > We chose to work on this phone because we believe in the ideal of freedom > and choice. For us, the other two mobile OS's are not options. They > represent tyranny and forced conformity. > > I stand here committed to these ideals and the work that has been done. I > am prepared to further invest my money and time into giving freedom and > choice to those who want it. > > > > > *"they asked him what was the object of all this study applied to an art > that would reach but very few. He replied: 'I am content with few, content > with one, content with none at all.' ...Lay these words to heart, Lucilius, > that you may scorn the pleasure which comes from the applause of the > majority."* > > *Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letter VII* > > > > > -- > A. James Lewis (ja...@fsck.co.uk) > "Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people > built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works." > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Kristijan Žic
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