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Originally Posted by timoph View Post
ah. I'm not agreeing but now I understood what you're after.

Actually there was an effort to do an open version of maemo some years ago here. You even might have heard of the project "Mer". Of course Mer does something different nowadays but anyway
Yeah.. and that didn't turn out so well--not for lack of community effort, though. What DID manage to work was severely crippled by the lack of fully functioning drivers and a lack of documentation to make all-new drivers from scratch that worked reliably. I remember it clearly. I was there and I tried it and followed it closely with much anticipation and hope, yes. It's not much different today though, no. I find it ironic and a little funny that you chose to hold that up as an example--it only proves szopin's point and weakens yours. Strange argument.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Personally, I do not believe that getting 100% "open" state of Maemo is possible via any "transfer" of IP from Nokia, even if they would like to. Simply put, they're not owners of many parts, so no ammount of begging/business prroposals is going to make it happen.
If that is true--which I always feared might be the case, then it makes Maemo that much more of a scam for Nokia's choice of less and less open hardware to base it on. It still doesn't answer questions regarding closed-sourced, completely SOFTWARE portions like the calendar, media player and other tools that support the operating system but cripple it if you try to separate it from the OS.

But, I think we already got our answer a few pages back: Too bad.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Also, even if we put aside current positive boost in cooperation with Nokia, I'm perfectly sure that - in case of "doomsday" or separation scenario - all Council/Community can do for current code is to keep it available, both psychically and legally (OBS repos etc), then, we would be in position where we *must* go our own way into future. Not much to be scavenged from currently closed bits, anyway.
What the heck is 'psychically'? It SOUNDS like 'psychic'...mind reading? But I can't tell if you meant physically or psychologically or something else. :P
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