bradmont

Carrier interference/lockdown

How are you navigating the carrier & manufacturer interference waters with Ubuntu Phone? One of the most frustrating things as an Android user is that both the phone manufacturers and the cellular carriers lock down devices and install unwanted software.

Are you planning on allowing carriers to lock down certain features (like root) of Ubuntu phones? Do you forsee handsets with manufacturer-installed software (apps or even shells) that can't be removed or replaced by the user?

Edit for clarity: I'm asking more about the overall platform & the agreements Canonical is making with hardware manufacturers and carriers, not about the Edge specifically.

Other distros on the handset

I love the vision of device convergence, and the possibility of having open OSes take a more prominent role in the computing world. I also love the enormous options using Linux affords me.

So, as you build Ubuntu for phones, what is your vision for hackability? Do you expect other distributions will able to take your technology and build something similar on top of it? For example, a couple years down the road do you think we could see things like Debian Phone and Arch Linux for Android?

They needed more than a million dollars a day from day one.

Do you have a source for that? Because the opening credits for 12 Monkeys say "Based on La jetée," so I find it a little hard to believe he hadn't seen it.

It always bugged me how clearly Patrick Stewart enunciated "Broccoli" in that gag... it's like the American scriptwriters just didn't realise that "Barclay" would sound nothing like "Broccoli" to a French Scottish Brit...