Yes, the euro symbol I typed turned into something else when I posted. Then I also noticed the 666 was for the board. Further down the list is indeed "GTA04 Complete", which is the new board in the old case, for 749 euro.

I too have the n900, which I bought instead of the more open but less functional at the time Freerunner. Not being Stallmannesquely pure, the n900 seemed like a good enough compromise to me.

I should get a spare n900 or two, while there still are used ones available.

wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA04

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That's like devilishly expensive. If I had the extra money, I'd pay it, but dang!

Oh, you're getting serious as cancer?

It wouldn't take Gates more than a few seconds of a lunchbreak from doing all that saving humanity to save it some more by issuing a statement saying "Now that I have done like Jesus and put a computer in every home, I think everyone should start using free and open software, because that is obviously, like the Khan Academys free education, the right thing to do. Yes, I'd like fries with that."

And free knowledge, like the Khan thing, which he allready does dig, plus free software could have obvious synergistic effects on AIDS and cancer or other medicine and science in the future. And he all ready likes the Khan thing and has prioritized that. GNU/Linux is just more of the same. So you should insert your "priorities" into your rectum, in my opinion. Thank you.

Dear Mr Gates,

I have noticed how fond you are of the excellent efforts of the Khan Academy to disseminate knowledge to anyone for free.

I'm very excited to have found two more projects that should really be up your alley. You will probably want to donate billions to them right away!

They are very much in line with what the Khan Academy is trying to accomplish, but they are working at another perspective of knowledge.

They are about fascilitating the dissemination, creation and construction of knowledge and information on computing hardware:

http://gnu.org/

http://linux.com/

They are Free and Open instructions for computers (machines to process data with). With these free of cost and Free as in freedom software projects and the excellent efforts of the Khan Academy, all the children of Earth (with access to computing hardware - that is yet another avenue you could look into) can really get a leg up.

Sincerelly,
Dr Pointer-Outer-Of-Obvious-Ironies-Dinkelspiel

>Explain to me again what consequence of lack of privacy is independent of values?

Death. Broken bones. Shackles.

You can, of course, latch on all sorts of different values to those states, but if you are dead or shackled, the values of whoever put you in that state does not alter the state of being dead or shackled itself.

Any of those consequences might be extremely unlikely for you where you are now, but sooner or later it will be zero or one anyway. And if it turns out to be one, then it doesn't matter how unlikely it seemed earlier.

Thanks. Upon further pondering, arbitrary logic in court would be too outrageous. The injustice lies at a more abstract level. Also, I seem to not have spellchecking in my browser.

Unless, of course, one values Freedom(tm) or Openness(tm) or TheRightThingToDo(tm).

...eh, by "your" I mean "the american", and by "america" I mean the US.

Are you saying that's the way it works in practise? Not saying it isn't, and hoping that it is, but I thought your justice system was completely wack, in practise.

"Jerk" doesn't quite cover it. I believe terms such as "evil" and "monopolistic" should also be applied.

they just threw that out there to see if it could have had any chance to stick. If it would'a, then they'd turned around one day an said: "Haha! We own all the words now, so you must all shut the fuck up!"

Swallow this here black jizzum and I shall grant you popularity and gold.

I could not come up with a line for the subject and I could not RTFS or TFA for some neuropsychriatric reason, but I think that a plug for Accessible Computing Foundation would probably be in order right about just there:

http://accessiblecomputingfoundation.org/

I heard about this on the linux outlaws podcast number 246:

http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws/246

They interviewed Jonathan Nadeau, who started the project. He's a blind gnu/linux user/peddler. I think I've repeteadly heard him on the Kernel Panic too. I hope I'm not confusing him with any other blind gnu/linux user. They all sound alike.

Anyway. Swell guy with a worthy cause, by the sound of it.

You have got a point.

But, if we look at this from the perspective of freedom-power-to-the-underdog and assume Mozilla is all for that, then there was much rejoicing. I am under the impression that Mozilla is in it for the benefit of all us little common people. Therefore, this, whatever it is, and even if MS allready did it, is presumably a good thing. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong (is Mozilla not the knight with shiny armpits I assume?).

The appeal of ARM is not measured in performance/$, it's about flipflops/wigwam.