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

freemangordon	2011-05-26 , 17:30
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Originally Posted by Stskeeps

For good measure as I see a lot of confusion.. you people do know that several Nokians and subcontractors is paid and employed to work on N900 DE? We work in the open as to enable everyone to contribute and help out with DE.

Yeah, thanks to Nokia before M$ epoch. But it is over and question is how long DE team will have the inertia to continue. Can you guarantee that it will be after DE is as useful as Maemo is now?

We do have access to all sources we need to make N900 DE work and we work to publish all hardware support things we need in some form, but legal checks takes times and sometimes it will be redistributable binaries instead of sources. Redistribution means you can make your own DE images and legally redistribute them. Sometimes getting things to work outside Maemo just takes times.

Great. And how exactly your access to Maemo5/6 source code differs from allowing those who choose not to leave the ship to have access to the same code? Or DE team is a kind of chosen ones?

How about we spend time making sure we have a device we can make do our bidding as we like, customize even without big technical knowledge, instead of asking to release source code that is dead and already rotten.

Long story short, contribute to MeeGo N900 DE. Who wants to work on dead-end unreadable source that can be rewritten in QML and Python in 3 days?

Me. Do you mind? Let me be old-fashioned, I like it that way. I am sure above statement is because you really like what you are doing and you strongly believe in Meego's future, but not everyone shares your enthusiasm. And isn't linux about the choice?

To be honest I can't believe I am advocating abill_uk. But his point that we need discussion on Maemo 5 future seems valid.
It is not that I need full source code - there are several components (Conversation UI, Calendar, ...) that will make life much easier to those who choose to contribute to Maemo 5 , not Meego.

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