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2012-03-23 , 22:49
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
What does ANY of that have to do with Maemo's intentional crippling by Nokia by choosing components that weren't open-source friendly and by closing off even their own software? Are you trying to divert the conversation toward something else that we weren't talking about?
okay, obviously we have a different point of view on this.
you say (correct me if i'm wrong)
NOKIA sabotaged Maemo & the whole NIT project, by not open sourcing their hardware
i say that Nvidia, ATI/AMD, TI (also providing silicon for the N900 btw) don't bother about open source
they couldn't care less
well, not quite
Nvidia & ATI/AMD (among others) take the time to provide BINARY drivers for their HW because not all the programs that professionals may use high-end graphic cards for are available on m$
it's a service to (some of) their customers
incidentally customers who buy $$$$$ configurations

what about N900, N8x0 and 770?
Maemo?
i say we should be thankful to NOKIA for having designed, manufactured and commercialized them and for still paying the bills for this / these site(s)
i think you were among those claiming that NOKIA never sold enough Maemo (OS200x) devices to make a difference anyway, no?

again, it's down to MAG, Pali and others who know how to reverse engineer some of the hardware
and some not, alas.

again, trying to give some perspective on the economic reality NOKIA was confronted with, even before Flop.

why do they keep designing & manufacturing new devices and developing & releasing new versions?
to sabotage it? doesn't make sense to me....

and Flop either could bet the farm on that or....
of course, sabotaging Symbian was plain dumb idiotic, but, hey... no brain, no pain


YOU: NOKIA sabotaged Maemo & all

ME: Maemo is only a "research project", not a commercially viable platform; it's up to the community to develop it

agree to disagree?