Thread: The End is Coming: What do we do next?
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Graham Cobb is offline Graham Cobb
2011-08-23 , 16:42
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#293
Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
The problem is wider even than that.
Care to explain? In my view, the problem which needs addressing now is to make sure anyone can make available any or all of the material needed to continue to allow people to use and develop on their devices.

I disagree. I think there is plenty enough interest in a self-governing community promoting the only existing GNU/Linux SW for mobile devices.
Here we will need to agree to differ.

Neither do I. The only thing worse is that it never gets distributed.
I do not believe that having one single entity with a right to distribute, but not everyone else, is actually significantly better than no one having the right.

That is partly because I cannot see any sort of formal entity continuing more than a few months. But it is also because I think that we want to allow for commercial entities: for example, if someone was to start to offer reconditioned N900 devices, they would want the right to distribute the necessary binaries, if they were not available from Nokia any more. We need to get Nokia to allow the right for anyone to distribute all the material.