Sylvain Munaut 246tnt@gmail.com wrote:

And why exactly should we help you when you publicly stated [1] that you'd rather shoot us then yourself [1] http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2012-March/066565.html

A little clarification is in order:

* In my past negative interactions with certain individuals who have previously served as employees or contractors of Openmoko-Inc and who currently serve as lead developers of OsmocomBB, the crux of the dispute was those individuals' unwillingness to share with all Humanity (yes, *all Humanity*, *not* "me" - I could be dead tomorrow and nothing will change) those COFF object files with symbolic information which Om-Inc had received from TI, and/or their voluntary choice to live and/or accept voluntary citizenship in a country that deems such sharing to be illegal - obviously a voluntary choice which I have NOT made.

* There has been one major change in the year and a half since that post of mine quoted by Sylvain - I have discovered this:

http://scottn.us/downloads/peek/

[In case ScottN, whoever he is, takes the ware down from his website, it's already archived on my mini-Wikileaks at ftp.ifctf.org/pub/GSM/LoCosto - but for as long as ScottN's copy is up, it should be much faster.]

The discovery of the above source (which is almost complete source with very little in object-only form) makes it now unnecessary for me to sacrifice my life in a gunfire exchange with German or Russian police in order to free Openmoko's COFF objects - I'm pretty confident in my ability to recreate something very similar, but full-source from this recently discovered "peek" ware and other more recently discovered leaks, also on my FTP site.

than help us in any way ...

It is true that I have chosen to use a different Free Software GSM stack (plus UI etc) implementation for my personal use, hence any contributions from me to the software side of the OsmocomBB project are indeed unlikely.

However, I am hoping that the project to build new free phone hardware can be done as a joint project between the two camps. The hardware design files will be free for anyone to download and do with as s/he pleases, and obviously each user is free to run whatever software s/he likes: OsmocomBB, FreeCalypso, or some 3rd or 4th or other choice that may exist in the future.

SF