Thread: Should MeeGo developers continue to publish info on this forum for maemo users (wrt Nokia device support)?
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momcilo is offline momcilo
2011-08-30 , 22:44
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#165
Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
If the entire Motorola series source tree were to be opened tomorrow it would be a miracle, and if only the bootloader was left closed it would be RE'd in a weekend. And the codebase would quickly be used in other phones as well.
In a hypothetical situation, where you have a full access to motorola source, you would still not be able to install your custom build firmware.

The reason is simple, boot loader makes sure it can run only firmware packaged by motorola. So there is no chance of forcing in (RE'd).

See the philosophical view on it (it was labeled as paranoid at the time it was created):
Trusted computing.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

Aside from this, here is the question to demonstrate openness of meego (or maemo):

Can you influence the meego design decisions and how?
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Last edited by momcilo; 2011-08-30 at 22:54.