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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
The entire Fedora project is based around complete open source. They do in fact call Ubuntu and several other platforms "not open" because they include close-sourced programs and drivers. In order to use Fedora with closed source tools, one must manually add a separate third-party repository to get such items (like flash player, acrobat, and hardware drivers for high-res on some graphics cards).
Well, if you want to bash Ubuntu because of those things, the proper base of comparison is Debian, compared to it, even Fedora seems to have a lax morale.

look at most of the bugs in MeeGo and Maemo. Most of them are drivers not handling hardware properly.
Care to substantiate that with some numbers ?

All I'm saying is, calling one OS better than the other when they have the same limitations in regard to binary-blob drivers, is silly.
...and just for the sake of purism Maemo and MeeGo are both the same OS, just different distros.

That I think we can agree on. But governance itself is not a substitute for actual code. Compared to iOS, or Android, or even what's left of the council here, MeeGo does win in that regard.
I find that remark peculiar (from the Maemo/Council angle) as MeeGo governance is entirely corporate-run, *including* community matters/applications. Maemo is/was a lot more open at least in that regard.
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