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

momcilo	2011-05-31 , 07:33
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Originally Posted by ScottishDuck

This thread can be shown to any business that considers releasing partial source for their operating system as a reason to remain entirely closed. All it does is spawn idiots with an inflated sense of entitlement that antagonise hard working developers. Good going folks.

Perhaps you should remember how these devices were branded. If I recall correctly, the majority of developers were interested because of the promise of an open platform. At that moment nobody new about closed bits.

If you compare this program (770,800,810,900) to Neo Freerunner project, you will see that there are many different distributions some of them still providing builds for the original green phone. This project has also suffered because closed bits(infamous glamo chip), but has managed to stay open to community.

I agree with you that there is no point in antagonizing nokias developers. Given the fact that this request will be most likely ignored, do you have a better idea?

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