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momcilo	2011-09-04 , 15:04
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Originally Posted by tkatchev

Dude, no offence, but you're rambling and not making sense.

Yes, Maemo is a closed-source monstrosity.

Meego, on the other hand, is a very generic, very much run-of-the-mill standard open-source Linux distribution.

They are two very different OS's.

For once, let us clear what term "Open Source Software" is supposed to mean.

Originally it was devised to serve as a synonym to "Free Software" (as in freedom, like rms says). Most people do comprehend the two terms and synonyms and apply Open Source to the end user.

Unfortunately, the initiatives like Android and Meego are targeting hardware vendors instead. From their point of view (hardware vendors), Open Source is Free Software, but from the point of end user, Open Source != Free Software.

I hope I made everything clear now. Meego and Android are not Open Source for end users, we need true Free Software (as a free beer) for the end users.

Now I ask you: are you a vendor or an end user?

BTW somebody mentioned more liberal licensing somewhere: More liberal licensing (than GPL) from the point of vendor means ability to screw end users by limiting the lifetime of a device.

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Last edited by momcilo; 2011-09-04 at 15:10.

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