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

wmarone	2011-05-26 , 22:00
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Originally Posted by woody14619

I won't answer... I'll let the Nokia-hosted MeeGo conference about N900 DE explain it for me:

Please read line one aloud: "This is and will not be for regular end users." Period. You can read the whole text and see more slides by clicking here.

I don't need to. I was there.

Even the presenter, near the end of the demo video, notes that the camera still has issues, and overall "it needs work... But is surprisingly overall good." Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

You've just done the same thing. You've said "It can't ever be good" but not given any reasons. The DE is not intended for regular end users. It can be a base from which a version for regular end users could be developed, however. Yet the question, which still has not been answered, is why this is not possible.

It's certainly more possible than getting the last closed bits out of Nokia.

And NITDroid is Android, which IMO can't compare to MeeGo or Maemo, no matter how hard they try (never mind the fact that Android will never work with any of the closed bits required for hardware support, due to Google using a custom libc.)