Thread: Discussion of difficulties with porting to Neo900
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reinob is offline reinob
2013-09-17 , 08:17
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NOTE: I replied to szopin before reading the subsequent posts, particularly Jörg's reminder to stay on-topic. Sorry about that.

Originally Posted by szopin View Post
Marketing using Fremantle (tm) as part of product information (pulling as hard as I can from my ***, but they can better) - easy, just move to the Freemantle untrademarked term to what this will be flashable with.
We have bought our N900s, so the hardware is ours. Meaning I can mod it like I want, including replacing the board.

I can always (if I had the time anyway build a board that could run Windows, or OS/2 for all I care. That wouldn't cause any problem with Microsoft or with IBM. I'm just building compatible hardware. The user has the freedom to install whatever OS he likes.

Just to clarify it without reference to Maemo/N900:
You could now buy a OS-less PC, replace the motherboard (or any other component), and then install (your copy of) Windows on it. Neither the PC manufacturer, seller, nor OS-vendor would have an issue with it -- except perhaps the warranty, but that's another (largely irrelevant in our case) matter.
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