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2015-11-24 , 14:29
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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
So, would it be possible to have another Indiegogo campaign, but this time involving a group of people interested only in producing a tablet running a Mer-based OS? If the hardware isn't too expensive, and the OS doesn't take too much effort to port, and you can get the devices into users hands quickly enough, it might be possible to create a larger base of support for the OS...
This might sound a bit heretic, but what if you could stuff your UX experience (reusing a bit of middleware, but not all the privacy invading **** and with no UX) on top of any Android hardware out there with less than 1 day worth of porting effort?

.. Except it would require not using a Mer-based (or for that matter any GNU/Linux) OS and leaving your favourite technologies behind, for the easier spreading.

That'd be a lot easier, wouldn't it?

What matters more? glibc/systemd; or control over the experiences that is the thing you actually touch; spread easily across the world to everybody?
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