[Xiph-Advocacy] Re: The Open Letter to Nokia

[Alexander van Loon]

Hello Ivo,

I'm CC'ing this reply to the advocacy mailing list as well, because
that's where my effort to write a letter to Nokia started.
Unfortunately I'm a serious procrastinator and I haven't gotten any
further than the draft on the xiph.org wiki -
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Letter_to_Nokia - of the letter to Nokia.

I've followed the news concerning Nokia and Theora, and I agree with you
that sending them a letter now isn't going to be useful.

I've had it with Nokia, they seem to be quite stubborn. My personal
strategy will be to let my wallet do the talking instead of a letter, I
intend to buy an open source Neo1973 smartphone with Openmoko -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo1973 - which will play the xiph.org
codecs and container formats out of the box AFAIK. The mass-market
version is nearly ready, maybe March 2008
(http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-December/012267.html).

On the other hand, currently the devices which can play the xiph.org
codecs and container formats are relatively hidden on the wiki -
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisHardware - if this information was
accessible from the xiph.org front page, with an easy and more
attractive interface, interested users could be reached more easily to
educate them about compatible hardware. That might help a bit.

Greetings,
Alexander van Loon

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 21:11 +0000, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
> After the whole mess with Nokia, I guess the idea of sending them a
> letter isn't to be considered anymore.
> 
> Before we discard the idea, perhaps you would like to provide some
> input on it and what you think exactly.  Maybe you could help us form
> a new strategy?
> 
> -Ivo