The Future is OpenMoko. Sean sent a rather nice announcement to the list. And once again they just get it (in contrast to Trolltech and their Greenphone campaign)! Their decisions in itself and the way they do it and transport them is just the right way. And everyone within the Free Software Developer Community should be very familiar with. So OpenMoko is compatible with the Free Software Community and we can make a huge leap ahead in progressing Free Software and Free Infrastructure. The selected software is just about right for the consumer and business. Evlution Data Server solves so many problems. Problems we are facing within KDE, we have faced in Opie and Qtopia is still facing. Evolution Data Server is easy to synchronize, and even stuff like direct exchange access seems possible. Together with the planned email push access and the open Linux platform this just seems to be right for companies caring about security and sanity in their IT Infrastructure. No more punching holes and installing unknown server software at the heart of your infrastructure.

For the launch in september we will likely face some tough decisions, specially when directly working with Mobile Operators. Themes like DRM, Flash Over The Air, Branding will be on the agenda but that is OpenMoko’s and FIC’s job and I trust them to handle these topics carefully.

I’m really looking forward to hold one of these devices in my hands. Finishing another fast init system, implementing an Gtk+ backend for the JavaME, or just working on WebKit/Gtk+ looks like fun and challenging projects, or just plainly meassuring and comparing performance sounds like fun as well. So fun is ahead!

Hmm I should order a greenphone just to let OpenMoko run on it :}

PS: Trolltech sadly failed to respond to my questions about how they want to handle a community and to gurantee that future Qtopia releases will be Free. What a waste of resosurces, seriously I doubt many people within Trolltech, even within the Qtopia team, have the insight and knowledge of the Qtopia platform that I have…