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Originally Posted by jmarkevich
What if someone wanted to rewrite the tasking scheduler? Make a completely different input model than SIP? How about HI-RES screens that rotate? Blow memory limitations off the map?
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Like WisBar, Gigabar, etc. For a SIP, you mean like Fitaly or transcriber (how many more ways do you need to input text). With HiRes Screens, are you meaning like with VGA output or do you have a magical way of increasing the static resolution of tft screens that I have not heard of? Memory limitations? There is only so much 64 Mb RAM can do.
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Originally Posted by jmarkevich
The OEM can do this. Actually, the USER can do this, since GPL requires the code be included. This kind of flexibility is what embedded devices really need, and Palmtops don't desperately NEED but can be helpful.
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OK, so if you want extra functionality, you will recode it? Great. At least with PPC you have the option of C/C++, C#, VB, etc, with linux you have to know C/C++ - What percentage of end users know C++? < 1%? So how is this helpful to the user?
My point is that the wonderful benefits that linux offers come at a price, and why should the end user have to do all this stuff when the functionality is already there for Pocket PCs (and probably PalmOS)? Making Linux based PDAs does not make sense at this stage unless you are a big company that can afford to do lots of extra work (ala Sharp) to ensure a high number of useful devices.
If I was an investor, I would be extremely cagey about investing in a company that was trying to do a Linux PDA.