Golem.de reported:
The FIC the affiliated undertaking of OpenMoko will not evolve open-source smartphone Neo Free Runner any more. OpenMoko had to reduce the number of employees to be able to stay active in the market. The only rescue is to bring another device to the market but not a phone.
It wonders me not that the development of this project was stopped. The idea in itself, an open-source mobile phone is the right one, as it can be seen from the success of G1. The problem is that this device until the present time is not ripe. As far as I see, the OpenMoko developers wanted to work out the mobile phone with the help of user feedbacks. Unfortunately, it has failed, as the development of the device required too much time. The device is also still quite buggy. The design of OpenMoko is also a weak point of the device. Somehow, this situation reminds me on Linux problems. The operating system is great, but it is too difficult to operate it. I am a student of computer science and I find Linux really great. I use Linux as a server to host my web pages, but I will never install this OS as a home system. At least not until the design and usability will be reviewed for normal people. The Linux community has a lot of things to do. Maybe someday I will make my contribution, who knows. In our university there is an option – “man-machine communication,” where problems and solutions of usability of software products are the matters of studies. Unfortunately, I have not enough time in this semester to visit this decepline, but perhaps I will do it in the next one. There must be someone who after all solves the eternal Linux problems 
That was obviously a joke, but the topic of design and usability is very burning question in the Linux community.
