Hugh talked me into accepting donations for a Pre, so I figured I should post here so people knew that the
buy-rod-a-pre@rwhitby.net PayPal address was legitimate.
For those who are not aware, I founded WebOS-Internals.org and Preware.org and am attempting to build a developer community around those concepts.
Along with the other WebOS Internals developers (who are far more skilled at webOS development than I am), we bring you the Preware and Terminal applications, the Virtual Keyboard patch, the WebOS Internals wiki, the mechanisms and repositories for applying other patches, and the open standard ipkg repositories at ipkg.preware.org (with more feeds being added each week it seems).
I pledge to use any donations to allow someone in the US to purchase and ship to me a CDMA Pre (which unfortunately will not work as a phone in Australia) to be used for on-device testing and development related to WebOS Internals and Preware. When I am able to purchase a GSM/UMTS Pre for myself, I will use the CDMA Pre for hardware-related investigations (e.g. finding the Serial and JTAG ports).
Any left-over donations will go to WebOS Internals (see
http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/...s:Site_support for details of how those donations will be handled).
Thanks to jhoff80 for being appropriately skeptical
-- Rod