[freedomben]

I'm a little confused at the moving pieces here. We have RePebble, Rebble, and PebbleOS. PebbleOS is the easy one. OS recently opened by Google.

But how are RePebble and Rebble related? Are they the same thing? Is Rebble making hardware as well as RePebble, or are they the same effort? Is RePebble also open source and community owned like Rebble?

[will0]

Rebble is the open source infra that has been keeping Pebbles alive since ~2016. See: rebble.io and https://github.com/pebble-dev

(Disclaimer: I'm part of the team)

RePebble is a new thing by Eric, the original founder of Pebble and is unrelated to Rebble.

> Is Rebble making hardware as well as RePebble?

Potentially! We have always talked about it, but some of the announcements today have thrown us for a loop so plans are still being discussed.

> Is RePebble also open source and community owned like Rebble?

Remains to be seen, but if I had to guess it's unlikely.

[follower]

> [...] some of the announcements today have thrown us for a loop so plans are still being discussed.

Feel free not to answer, but: does this imply Rebbele were aware of an impending Pebble OS source release but not... the other thing?

If so, that seems... "unfortunate". :/

Also, btw, I really like the use of the phrase "user-respectful technology" in the Rebble post.

And, rather unsurprisingly given one of my other recent comments[0], I am supportive of the fact that the Foundation's missions includes these aspects in particular:

* "educating people about why these [little oasis of user-respectful technology] are important"

* "using them as a platform to teach embedded systems"

*insert additional supportive statement & well wishes here* :)

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856930 [1]

[1] TooLong;Don'tRead. :)

[subarctic]

There's also the Pebble watch which I believe was the thing that this all comes from originally? Just piecing this together from all the HN posts now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)