Thread: N8x0 Doomsday repositories
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2012-10-05 , 11:40
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
You seem to be making opposing points within the same sentence. What are you saying?
I mean that there's not a big market for second-hand units while there are still new ones to be had at low prices. For instance, I got my latest one for £60 last summer, and that was the rare (especially in Europe) WiMAX edition.

It is still relevant point to make that Nokia really has wretchedly crippled and hobbled
Consider the audience ;-) We all agree on that, but re-iterating doesn't help people make personal backups of the bits they're going to need once the repositories go down.

The legal permission to at LEAST distribute closed-source freely may ultimately be the only fix until someone comes along to write an altogether replacement operating system--which we know is unlikely given previous attempts and the closed architecture.
N8x0s are not that closed in that respect, and there are other distributions working fine on them. It's just that there's not enough developer critical mass to polish them (again, the hardware is 6 years old and there are shinier toys available all over the place).
 

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