Thread: [Council] Council_Update-July_2011
View Single Post
tekki is offline tekki
2011-08-05 , 08:52
Posts: 60 | Thanked: 198 times | Joined on Aug 2011 @ Radical Realistic Open Source with JFDI instead of Bikeshedding
#343
Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
Are you aware that stskeeps was given all the closed binaries for the N900 from Nokia ?.
Why do you think it's only 'stskeeps'?. According to http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/HW_Adaptation_team :

This hardware adaptation team maintains the port of MeeGo for the N900. Due to the use of closed components in the hardware adaptation, this team cannot run fully in the open. However, it will strive to minimize the non-openness in its work related to those components and the number of those components. Closed components will be maintained exclusively by employees and subcontractors of Nokia.
From where I sit it just seems that Nokia is actively investing in making it possible to have a sustainable MeeGo port and deliver working, both open and closed source redistributable bits for N900 so people can work on a open system without loosing hardware functionality.

What's bad about that?
 

The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to tekki For This Useful Post: