April 2008 Archives
2008-04-17
Leaving Openmoko aka Free Your Self
It's over 13 months now since I started to work for OpenMoko. Wednesday was my last day.
I'm not leaving with bad feelings. Still over the last months I disagreed with decisions and directions, got frustrated with the work I had to do. Not the best conditions for a productive work environment.
However I still like to see OpenMoko success. As open as possible mobile phone hardware on which I can flash all kind of software I like. Not fighting against vendor policies but having almost all options I like. Still sounds great to me.
Over the last 13 months I learned a lot. For both, coding and business. Working with some great people from the FOSS community from all over the world and with great taiwanese engineers. (Watch out for these guys, they are awesome but shy) Made new friends and had to deal with an interesting different culture.
It was an awesome but exhausting trip. It's over for now.
I plan to do no paid work for the next 1-2 months, perhaps even longer. In this time-frame I need to come back to the study life I had before and take some rest. Read some good books, hang out with friends and don't worry about deadlines.
After that we will see what kind of work will come in. At least it must be not as much time consuming as OpenMoko was. Need to focus on my studies.