Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

Actually is Mer still an active project now that MeeGo is being developed?


Dear Nokia please open source your stuff because:
(1) It fosters a happy community who will buy more of your products.
(2) You can return the favour of open source helping you to develop your products
(3) It's good publicity
(4) You will be entertained by qwerty12 trying to pleasure himself.

Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

I believe Mer has been retired. Since MeeGo will have a fully open stack (save a handful of drivers) Stskeeps is already working to coordinate a port for the N8x0 series devices.

Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

i support this petition. this os is going down the drain unless nokia decides to redeem itself by opening its code to developers.



on another note, why are posters like nosa101 such negative dolts? they keep storming threads as if they are the voice for nokia. shills. if you don't agree with this petition please don't give us your short sighted feedback. we don't need you to tell us your take on the issue because it's just counter-productive to the whole process of making maemo better for everyone. your mere presence in this sort of thread might be directly linked to maemo's failure so please go away. if you're sick and tired of stumbling into constant posts then quietly ignore them just like in any other forum. and yes, this is just like any other forum.


nosa, remember this little lady, you're not in kansas anymore... don't get mad. you can apply for nokia if you feel like you've got something better to offer than the petition itself.

Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

I would love to see this too. Mainly my interest is for the Nokia closed source applications (like File Manager, Contacts, Media Player and the browser UI) to be open-sourced, so that the community can fix bugs/add features as desired. However, I see very little chance of this happening.

MeeGo will apparently have open-source "reference" implementation of the above applications, which is a good step forward, although Nokia may still be coding up their own closed-source alternatives for their MeeGo devices. Without knowing the difference in capabilities between the open-source and closed-source apps, it is difficult to know how much of a problem this will be in the future.

Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

There should be no issue, really, if there's an open-source version. If anything, it'd be better as the existing media player on the N900 is generally terrible (I have never gotten the thing to play back video.)

Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

I would like to see nokia opening their source code, specially the phone app code so the community can fix it and make the n900 a good phone and not only a good mobile computer with phone capabilities :P

Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

Don't forget in some cases Nokia might not have a license to distribute the source. Nokia doesn't not design the Cortex processor, GSM, etc. The rights to these are purchased from their respective manufactures for Nokia to use under contract which might not include distributing the source.

Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

There are no issues regarding the CPU itself. It's the graphics chip that's the problem.

I'm pretty sure they did, but that's a trade secret for them.

Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

It would already help if they only distribute what they do have. If that includes the camera for example, it may open up the possibility to fix the video stuttering issue, which Nokia themselves have apparently set to Wontfix :(

Re: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
 

I really don't get the point of the personal attack

I am holding back Maemo's progress because I gave a possible reason for the closed nature of the code?

Where is the petition anyway?

Nokia has every right to withhold code if they choose to, it may be unfair but it is true.

Nokia is sharing some closed components on the "MeeGo to N900" project and that is a very good thing.