Thread: MeeGo 1.2 Release?????
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2011-06-08 , 08:53
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Originally Posted by smoku View Post
Free Software != Open Source Software
That old saw again? :P

Originally Posted by onethreealpha View Post
the problem is many people assume that because a corporation builds something based on open source (or FOSS) components, that corporation has some obligation beyond generating profits for itself.
Meego is moving along at a good pace as far as I'm concerned.
Just installed the latest daily build of 1.2 and screen unlock functionality is dramatically improved (much faster) and team appears to have optimised a lot of components, with the UX appearing much more responsive, even on first boot.
APN settings config ui has been added ( I haven't tried this yet) and gui package manager has also been added.

Will try out the apn config and report back shortly....
In fact, it does have an obligation beyond its own profits (says as much in the license that there ARE obligations to be met in the license that aren't necessarily in line with profitability)--but the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. The greatest shame in the whole Maemo/MeeGo affair has been Nokia's shameful disregard for the spirit of free and open-source software (feel better, smoku?).

The fact that you're touting one of the greatest features of the newest MeeGo is that it can unlock faster indicates to me that I wasn't far off with the paraphrasing of the Tai Kwan Leap skit in another thread (where I said, "MeeGo is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever toward the horizon.").
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