Re: Palm Pre modem plugin

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

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Hi Niko,

> Keep in mind I'm speaking about general developers and their interest,
> not about organizations, just pointing that *actually* FSO carries
> more interests on *some* areas.

Yes, I believe we completely agree on this point.   oFono's intention was 
never to be an entire application framework.  Our ambitions are only to create 
the best flexible, customizable and easy to use telephony stack.

> May you elaborate about that? May not a close source project use oFono
> by calling it's DBus API?

Marcel explained some of this very well already.  But just to add: oFono takes 
nearly full control of the modem, so even if it is technically possible to go 
behind oFono's back and try to do something in a closed/proprietary way, it 
would not be very practical.  This is also something we will actively 
discourage.

> That's one of the reason FSO is modularized. Anyway resource
> management in a complex system has to be handled in a central way to
> take coherency between subsytems.
> Having a middleware doing that is really important, just a case about
> the correct way to suspend/resume a device should be not the interest
> of a high level software.
>

Sure, however alternatives exist.  For this reason oFono does not dictate any 
particular approach.  In oFono everything is setup as a plugin / driver, so 
customizing any part or making it integrate with your particular environment 
should be quite easy.

>
> Nice to hear that. Anyway do not missunderstand, our team is adopting
> oFono, we are just digging incoming issues with the nogsm part
> integration!!!
>

Sounds interesting.  Let me know if I can be of assistance :)

Regards,
-Denis