[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] dcordes:
This is not only very stupid, but also ridiculous.

There are quite a few people who contributed in the port of the Linux Kernel to the htc kaiser and other msm7x00 hardware. (if you are new to this topic and interesting in android: google's android environment bases on Linux and thus requires the Linux Kernel to work properly on your target device) There are some who came along only to contribute a piece of information they found, some wrote one or more complete driver, some provide webspace, etc all of different background/motivation/skill. Then there are the many people (for example the users of this forum) who are eager to provide help testing the new developments, sharing their opinnions and ideas etc.

I personally am not one of the professional developers. I only know what I learned by playing with all this and some other projects. I am a big fan of Linux and was amazed by the htc-linux Kernel development, so I decided to contribute back, getting the kaiser and help porting the msm-linux kernel. I was down since day one and since then I spent a whole lot of time with this work which included boring documentation of things when we weren't able to boot yet, getting on people's nerves asking for help ;-) trying out new code, changing bits of it, etc. also keeping people informed in this forum with the techincal backgrounds. I uploaded the kernel builds to the servers of the linuxtogo organization. All that although I'm not really convinced in android because of the closed source situation. Only because I like the idea of Linux on mobile devices.

Anyway, long story short: I never asked for any money and did not make one lousy penny with this project. And this applies to all the people who I know contributed, as well.

(not counting the different "my super android on htc blog"-sites around where people make some dollars with ads.)

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Now some random person comes and thinks.. "Wow, this has gained a lot of attention. Now that people are even asking where to donate, why should I not make some money with it? It won't cost me anything, just one forum post :D"

Especially when you bear in mind that some persons here in this forum, probably even you reading this post right now, are very eager to have a fully working linux kernel and android on their cell phones, such a thing like the above becomes highly ridiculous.

From a donor's point of view, why on earth do you trust a random person who spits some garbage while there are so many people who obviously have been working on this for months? You could ask them to send a few dollars. Instead you chase this ****ed up ratter person and throw your money right out of the window.

And even if that person the ratter is talking about is a skilled linux kernel developer, why would he deserve ANY money when he only takes the present work and fixes a rather trivial bit (not to get technical) in it. IF SUCH PERSON WOULD EXIST, would they not rather deserve a punch in his face instead of getting a donation of 300$?

I think so, because this is not only ****ing ignorant, but even a huge insult to all us persons who have really worked on this in the past. I don't want to express how upset I really am about this right now.

So dear donors, if you have given any money to badbrad4080 or any other mysterious persons begging for android/linux on the htckaiser/polaris/.. like him, please take it back ASAP and spend it on something useful. Because it will not speed up any development and will not honor/reward the persons who deserve it really.

Thanks for reading, Lukas.