Man, you don't make any sense, what kind of drugs are you on? No one can rip you to threads on what you posted. Regarding anti-rust, it doesn't matter how many copies of anti-rust agent there is in Vietnam. The automative industry in america or europe can still benefit (just as they do) from this idea as much as they want, and pay you for it. I develop open source software, I make a living, http://ejbca.org/, free to use. The people infringing copyright here are usually large corporations, who are the ones lobbying against software piracy. That's what I call unethical!
Here you obviously have not read the GPL, or are spreading FUD. GPL clearly states that you only have to re-distribute sources with your products, i.e. to the users. If you have an in house you only have to distribute your sources in house, something that should not be a problem in most organizations. So unless you need to keep your programs secret from your own organization you don't have to pay anything. The GPL does not say that you have to distribute your sources to the world.
This is a common misunderstanding, or way of spreading FUD about GPL.
All I know is that I converted my laptop from ext3 to ext4. It became unstable as hell freezing over all the time. Just reinstalled it with ext3 and everything is fine and stable. Possible it was because one time my comp froze up and had to be forcibly shut down, after that an fsck was run that had to fix some errors. After that hell broke loose. On a laptop it should be possible that the battery runs out without having to reinstall everything, at least that works with ext3. So far I value the robustness of ext3 more.
I guess you're not a java developer youself, and haven't tried developing for Android. As later posters comment, the desktop development paradigm works fine on Android, which is why it is so good. Desktop developers can easily get started writing mobile apps. This is much harder for C/C++.
That's probably why even if there are more developers for Symbian out there, they produce a fraction of the apps available on other platforms (not to mention that most of them I tried pretty much suck AND cost money). Yes I did own a Symbain phone, and have talked to developers working on both symbian and android.
Having said that, I would agree that leveraging Linux a bit more would make sense and having access to the underlying platform could produce wonderful things.
The majority of apps should still use the java API though. I'm willing to bet that for new apps you will have a 10-1 advantage in productivity using the java APIs.
I'm convinced that the programming model of Android is what will make it a winner. Programming for Android is very easy if you're a java programmer, and there's millions of java programmers out there. You can't even compare it to developing for WinMo or Symbian phones, which is a very hard task.
The ease of development, and support for a market with tons of free (and paid for) apps simply blows WinMo and Symbian out of the water. Once you get a phone with the app support of Android (or iPhone) there is no turning back.
Symbian will die soon for sure, except perhaps for low cost, low function mobiles. WinMo will survive just because it has MS to hold it up with their desktop marketshare.
As a project founder of a successful project on SourceForge (EJBCA), I can at least give this advice - do NOT start an empty project and hope to attract any developer. No-one will be interested in an empty project.
First of it's a slim chance anyone will find your project amongst the thousands of other project, your project will be bottom rated since nothing is released.
Second, as a developer, even if I agree completely with your ideas I might just start my own project, since you have nothing to build on.
There are thousands of projects started as "good ideas" that never released anything. The right way to start a new project on SourceForge is to make code first, and then register the project and make the initial release right away.
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Man, you don't make any sense, what kind of drugs are you on? No one can rip you to threads on what you posted.
Regarding anti-rust, it doesn't matter how many copies of anti-rust agent there is in Vietnam. The automative industry in america or europe can still benefit (just as they do) from this idea as much as they want, and pay you for it.
I develop open source software, I make a living, http://ejbca.org/, free to use. The people infringing copyright here are usually large corporations, who are the ones lobbying against software piracy. That's what I call unethical!
Here you obviously have not read the GPL, or are spreading FUD. GPL clearly states that you only have to re-distribute sources with your products, i.e. to the users. If you have an in house you only have to distribute your sources in house, something that should not be a problem in most organizations. So unless you need to keep your programs secret from your own organization you don't have to pay anything.
The GPL does not say that you have to distribute your sources to the world.
This is a common misunderstanding, or way of spreading FUD about GPL.
All I know is that I converted my laptop from ext3 to ext4. It became unstable as hell freezing over all the time. Just reinstalled it with ext3 and everything is fine and stable.
Possible it was because one time my comp froze up and had to be forcibly shut down, after that an fsck was run that had to fix some errors. After that hell broke loose.
On a laptop it should be possible that the battery runs out without having to reinstall everything, at least that works with ext3.
So far I value the robustness of ext3 more.
I guess you're not a java developer youself, and haven't tried developing for Android.
As later posters comment, the desktop development paradigm works fine on Android, which is why it is so good. Desktop developers can easily get started writing mobile apps. This is much harder for C/C++.
That's probably why even if there are more developers for Symbian out there, they produce a fraction of the apps available on other platforms (not to mention that most of them I tried pretty much suck AND cost money). Yes I did own a Symbain phone, and have talked to developers working on both symbian and android.
Having said that, I would agree that leveraging Linux a bit more would make sense and having access to the underlying platform could produce wonderful things.
The majority of apps should still use the java API though. I'm willing to bet that for new apps you will have a 10-1 advantage in productivity using the java APIs.
I'm convinced that the programming model of Android is what will make it a winner. Programming for Android is very easy if you're a java programmer, and there's millions of java programmers out there.
You can't even compare it to developing for WinMo or Symbian phones, which is a very hard task.
The ease of development, and support for a market with tons of free (and paid for) apps simply blows WinMo and Symbian out of the water.
Once you get a phone with the app support of Android (or iPhone) there is no turning back.
Symbian will die soon for sure, except perhaps for low cost, low function mobiles. WinMo will survive just because it has MS to hold it up with their desktop marketshare.
According to the spec it supports a couple of 3G frequencies where 2100MHz is the frequency most commonly used by most operators in europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands
As a project founder of a successful project on SourceForge (EJBCA), I can at least give this advice - do NOT start an empty project and hope to attract any developer. No-one will be interested in an empty project.
First of it's a slim chance anyone will find your project amongst the thousands of other project, your project will be bottom rated since nothing is released.
Second, as a developer, even if I agree completely with your ideas I might just start my own project, since you have nothing to build on.
There are thousands of projects started as "good ideas" that never released anything. The right way to start a new project on SourceForge is to make code first, and then register the project and make the initial release right away.