Re: [SN0f126b03]Sync with Linux pilot-link Samtech004

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct mit edu>]

Electronics wrote:
> Dear Adam, This
> is Samsung Telecommunication America.
>   
> We appologize for the way you feel in regards with this issue.  Unfortunately,
> we cannot support Linux as the phone was not made for use with Linux, as
> with most Palm devices.  This is why we have no information or SDK for what
> you're trying to do.
Actually, I'm afraid you're quite mistaken about most Palm devices, Linux
and other Unix systems work perfectly well with a wide range of devices from
Palm, Sony and Handspring, thanks in part to assistance from those companies.

And the mutual assistance is a two-way street between the companies producing
Palm devices and the open source/free software community.  For example, the
Palm OS Emulator (POSE, http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/) is largely
based on code from Xcopilot, a free (GPL) emulator written for Unix/Linux
with an X-Windows interface, and was adopted and ported to Windows and MacOS
to become POSE.  The adoption of this very valuable free tool by Palm saved
that company quite a bit of development effort, and your company's engineers
have no doubt benefited from that work.

I wish you would reconsider your decision, but since that will likely take
more time than the return policy will allow, this weekend I will return my
I330 and purchase a Handspring Treo or Kyocera 7135 instead.  It is unfortunate
that your company has chosen to not participate in the process of writing
free drivers at this time, the growing community of free software users will
have to work without the benefit of your otherwise excellent products.

Thank you again for your prompt reply to my request.

Sincerely,

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Thomas B. King Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering
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