I'd rather focus on porting Free Software and getting an even larger repository of freely downloadable software - including the sources, so the community can keep using and improving existing software, even if the hardware changes.
A small niche platform like this is not very attractive for commercial developers: either they focus on making a nice Pandora application that fully uses the unique features of the Pandora (and then the user base is too small to make it worth it), or they make software that will work on many platforms, so the Pandora version would be just little income from little effort (simple recompile), and the main profit would be derived from the other versions, but then it cannot really use the unique features of the Pandora.
If people are willing to give money to get more Pandora software, I'd rather have them put it in some dev-fund, that is used to organize competitions like the ones we already had, give hardware to known devs, and give prices to people implementing or porting requested software. In any case we don't just need the binaries, we also need the sources. This is essential, because that way we are guaranteed that the effort will not have been in vain in the future, when there is a Pandora 2 or when we figure out new ways to make use of the existing Pandora hardware (which could require recompilation or even some code modifications). Even if the next generation Pandora would be backwards-compatible, we might still want to make updated versions of existing software (e.g. because the new screen has a better resolution or different aspect ratio).
A small niche platform like this is not very attractive for commercial developers: either they focus on making a nice Pandora application that fully uses the unique features of the Pandora (and then the user base is too small to make it worth it), or they make software that will work on many platforms, so the Pandora version would be just little income from little effort (simple recompile), and the main profit would be derived from the other versions, but then it cannot really use the unique features of the Pandora.
If people are willing to give money to get more Pandora software, I'd rather have them put it in some dev-fund, that is used to organize competitions like the ones we already had, give hardware to known devs, and give prices to people implementing or porting requested software. In any case we don't just need the binaries, we also need the sources. This is essential, because that way we are guaranteed that the effort will not have been in vain in the future, when there is a Pandora 2 or when we figure out new ways to make use of the existing Pandora hardware (which could require recompilation or even some code modifications). Even if the next generation Pandora would be backwards-compatible, we might still want to make updated versions of existing software (e.g. because the new screen has a better resolution or different aspect ratio).
