Quotes of the week

The overhead of formatting a patch properly is trivial. Getting a patch set into thunderbird or the web so totally dwarfs the tedium of actually creating the patch, it's unbelievable.

For me, if I had to design a new language today, I would probably use braces, not because they're better than whitespace, but because pretty much every other language uses them, and there are more interesting concepts to distinguish a new language.

I've mentioned this before, and I keep getting back to it: With all the great work that has been put into OsmocomBB, we are "at an arms lengh" away from being able to create a true Free Software mobile phone.

We already have the hardware drivers, protocol stack and even the 'mobile' program which can be used for making and receiving voice calls and sending/receiving SMS text messages on real GSM networks!

While the journey has been a lot of fun and everyone involved has learned a lot, we have so far been catering mostly about "scratching our own itch", i.e. implementing what we needed in order to satisfy our ego and/or to implement the ideas we had regarding cellular security.

I believe we cannot miss the bigger opportunity here to put our code into bigger use: To create something like a very simple GSM feature phone.