As has been said the baseband software is generally separated out. Software controlled radios are good but the the low level software is part of the FCC licensing so it must not be part of a user hackable OS.
I don't worry about the stability of such an open source phone, they'll get that right (or as right as any other major phone manufacturer does) but I do worry about UI design.
I'm not sure why I'm worrying though, I mean UIQ/SE appear to have completely fucked up the later P series phones as regards UI goes, and there's plenty of other awful examples out there, so it's not like supposedly well organised closed source teams with UI designers can't screw that side of things up just as well.
I do worry that there's an X windows box on openmoko's architecture diagram though.
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I don't worry about the stability of such an open source phone, they'll get that right (or as right as any other major phone manufacturer does) but I do worry about UI design.
I'm not sure why I'm worrying though, I mean UIQ/SE appear to have completely fucked up the later P series phones as regards UI goes, and there's plenty of other awful examples out there, so it's not like supposedly well organised closed source teams with UI designers can't screw that side of things up just as well.
I do worry that there's an X windows box on openmoko's architecture diagram though.