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[Kristijan Žic <kristijan.zic@xxxxxxxxx>]

I hope for that as well! I'm prepared to contribute my share.

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:51 PM A. James Lewis <james@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I definitely hope the work can be continued as an independent project....
>
> On 05/04/17 19:34, Seth Ciango wrote:
>
> This is liberating if we allow it to be. We're no longer forced to be Snap
> only while tethered to Unity8. We finally have control over the future of
> this project. The developer team needs to speak to the community on this.
>
>    - Who is willing to stick around?
>    - How difficult would a switch to GNOME be and how long would it take?
>    - What current phones on the market could the community target based
>    upon their openness and compatible hardware/drivers?
>
> We do not NEED Canonical or phone manufacturers. We truly thank them for
> getting us here. All the effort by the Ubuntu Phone team has been amazing
> and is greatly appreciated.
>
> We all backed this phone project financially and with hours of our lives.
> Hours that we spent debugging, coding, helping someone else. Hours that we
> could have spent with friends and family or on other projects.
>
> We chose to work on this phone because we believe in the ideal of freedom
> and choice. For us, the other two mobile OS's are not options. They
> represent tyranny and forced conformity.
>
> I stand here committed to these ideals and the work that has been done. I
> am prepared to further invest my money and time into giving freedom and
> choice to those who want it.
>
>
>
>
> *"they asked him what was the object of all this study applied to an art
> that would reach but very few. He replied: 'I am content with few, content
> with one, content with none at all.' ...Lay these words to heart, Lucilius,
> that you may scorn the pleasure which comes from the applause of the
> majority."*
>
> *Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letter VII*
>
>
>
>
> --
> A. James Lewis (james@xxxxxxxxxx)
> "Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people
> built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works."
>
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Kristijan Žic