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Originally Posted by momcilo View Post
That will hold the water until we encounter problem with closed-source drivers.
Any suggestions on how to do this?
  • Negotiating with Nokia to provide updated closed source binaries
As far as I can tell from their meetings and mailing list posts, this is what the MeeGo N900 team is providing for hardware adaptation. It has also been actively open sourcing what it can get (telephony stack, etc).

From a Radical Realistic Open Source point of view, why bother at all with a platform (Maemo) that is so infested with closed source?

It's going to go downhill like this like it always does in these kind of projects with devices that involve closed platforms:

* Clear trend of end-users moving on to other devices (promiscious and non-brand)
* Big legal challenges to legally redistribute parts of the firmware/full images
* Less and less work force to do anything useful

Do we really need a graph to show the effort/benefit of instead, focusing the community efforts on something like MeeGo, Debian, Ubuntu or god forbid, SHR?
 

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