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Hehe, IMO group of 3 people = 3 * knowledge of one guy

Also, I don't mean that our curiosity must lead to check everything about every aspect. Gaining knowledge doesn't conflict with specialization, naturally, You're mostly improving Your knowledge about things that interest You.

At the beginning, almost no one from community knew anything about N900, except some misty connections with Debian infrastructure. Without curiosity and learning along the way, we would not have almost *any* thins for N900, be it FM Radio, or CSSU. Not to mention such thins like USB hostmode, which were 100% undocumented, until some curious guys started to investigate it. And things like injection drivers for WiFi?... Reverse engineering of FMTX?

I can list initiatives for a long time, and we would end on having here list off almost everything in repos and outside, except some basic games and simple programs. Every core maemo community project involves *much* investigating about things we have not idea about, before we checked it out of curiosity. Really, it's much easier to put here short list of documented things, that name all undocumented ones, which were documented by curious people for all these years.

For me, it *heavily* impact how I use my N900. to be honest, it even make me to use it at all I've decided to bought it after extensive research (curiosity? ;P ), after such event like elopcalypse etc. It was, at the end, 100% "educated" decision, and I would do it again and again, without any doubts Thank to curious people around here, in late 2011 our ~2008 device doesn't have any real competitors for sane people in market of true mobile computers with phone functionality
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Last edited by Estel; 2011-08-28 at 10:44.
 

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