| tswindell |
2011-04-22 09:44 |
Re: MeeGo N900 Developer Edition News
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Originally Posted by vivmak
(Post 993046)
Do not really want to be a free of cost tester for MeeGo, ultimately it is a commercial product from which Intel and may Nokia are going to most benficial, needless to say if the product comes out to be good for n900 then we will be as well but then again its still a commercial but open source.
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That is like saying Fedora or Open SuSe is a commercial project, they're clearly not, but Novell and Red Hat contribute to those projects along with the open source communities involved, a lot of which are the same communities around the same software that makes up MeeGo. Red Hat and Novell, like Intel, or Nokia, or whoever take this open source platform and then customise it, productise it and sell hardware running it.
Is it wrong that we want to have a completely free in all sense of the word operating system on our devices? That is what MeeGo is, and from my perspective there is nothing commercial about it. I sense your statement is rooted in some bitterness you have towards Nokia, but don't take that out on MeeGo and the community we're trying to build. If you cared about having a truely open platform for mobile and embedded devices, you'd probably realise what we're doing, but I guess you don't understand or care?
But like Stskeeps said above, we don't mind if you just want to test the platform for yourself and not contribute your findings back, that is your choice. The fact you have that freedom is testiment to what we're trying to acheive. But our goals are to share, contribute and improve to the best we can, MeeGo. |
