maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - PETITION to Nokia to release the full source code of the Maemo OS to this Community.

wmarone	2011-05-25 , 23:49
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Originally Posted by abill_uk

As much as MeeGo has been developed it is no more than a very basic UI for the N900 and STILL requires closed source code to be opened if it stands a chance to address the N900 hardware.

Err, it already does. You still have yet to name exactly what hardware there is no support for. The last closed bits, IIRC, have been given in source form to the MeeGo project (but must be distributed binary) so support is effectively assured.

Carsten posted on here only a few back and is pushing MeeGo hard without any talk whatsoever of the CSSU team and this made me sad.

The CSSU is its own thing, any changes made to the open source bits can be reused on whatever is later built on MeeGo.

Like it or not Nokia has done wrong in many peoples eyes and if the CSSU team are to be really succsessful it needs this code from Nokia UNLESS it can get away with reverse engineering of the closed components.

Or, in time, the DE can be the basis for a Maemo replacement that won't have any closed bits. That's easier than begging Nokia to release bits they haven't in ~2+ years, or reverse engineering bits that aren't necessary anymore.

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