@ woody14619

I would tend to agree with you wrt meego (or any other group) people discouraging further maemo development, however there ae a number of important things worth consideration.

whilst neother OS can be seen as truly "open", Meego is a lot closer to the mark than Maemo, and with that in mind, lends itself to further development and sustainability than Maemo.

It is worth mentioning that Nokia appers to be giving more support to Meego development on the N900 than it is giving ongoing support to Maemo on the same device (Dev team funding for project and ongoing development/refinement of closed binary blobs to get the OS running smoothly on the N900)

ref: http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/1...kages/armv7hl/

for those non-oss components being used for CE builds.

the fact that there is so much more than just drivers that are closed in maemo (and that the closed components are so embedded in to the OS that trying to replace them breaks so much), is why some devs would argue that it's better to put efforts into a system with a more open core, given that long term sustainability of the OS is moe likely to be viable via upstream support.

Meego works on the N900. is it such a bad thing that (for now) using Nokia's closed components will provide the best/most efficient experience wrt hardware interaction and usability? Especially if the alternatives either don't yet exist or are inferior?