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Open Source Linux Phone Goes On Sale 520

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 09, 2007 @12:33AM from the got-my-moko-workin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sean Moss-Pultz has just announced on the OpenMoko mailing list that the Neo1973 is finally available for purchase. OpenMoko.com is now taking orders via credit card. OpenMoko intends to 'free your phone' through a hardware-independent and open source user interface backed by the Linux kernel. This device could very well stand as a competitor to the more expensive Apple iPhone, but at a fraction of the price and with no vendor lock-in. Although the devices in this release cycle (GTA01) are mainly intended for developers, the up-and-coming devices targeted to the consumer market (GTA02) will also feature WiFi capabilities, a 3D acceleration unit, and 256MB of on-board flash. Both units will use the MicroSD card interface for removable storage and have USB client / host capabilities. For a full feature list, check out OpenMoko.com or the OpenMoko Wiki."

Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback? 456

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @09:46AM from the brace-yourselves-lads-you-know-what-comes-next dept.

jeebus writes "This week a Deloitte study has shown that high on the agenda of CEOs around the world is the shortage of tech talent. Is a shortage of talented geeks in the market seeing a return of the dot-com culture with foosball tables, beanbags, and inflated salaries used to entice talented workers? Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture, the future of yesterday. 'Global recruitment companies were telling prospecting employees that they were no longer going to be employed just because they were a technical guru. They were going to have to learn to dress, communicate, and adapt all the traditional corporate ideals that IT has been exempt from during the dot-com boom. Fast forward to Web 2.0 and while workplaces aren't as cheesy with their decor as they were were in the late '90s, and developers aren't getting paid $100K for being HTML and JavaScript jockeys, geeks just aren't chuffed with corporate culture.'"

Comment Process and Philosphy (Score 1) 246

by Qui-Gon on Monday October 10, 2005 @06:23PM (#13759996) Attached to: What Makes an OSS Class Work?

Programming language is pretty much an irrelevant topic when talking about Open Source IMHO. I think it would be to good start off by looking at the motives and philosophy behind the open source movement back to its roots (even prior to the formation of organizations like FSF). This should include business models - including success stories and failures. Also examining the development methodologies (distribution, building, code QA, versioning, testing, etc) used by large and small scale open source projects. Now that your students understand the 'why' and the 'how' of open source, you could have them pick an open source project and contribute something to it.

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