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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
You seem to be approaching this commercial, for-profit enterprise with a purist's perfectionism, expecting Nokia to make the product 100% open a la OpenMoko.
Certainly not. Construing my needs as an expectation on Nokia isn't really productive. I expect Nokia to do what they deem prudent in pursuit of making money for the shareholders.

At the same time, I personally must choose the products that are right for me, and if I'm going to make development contributions, the future of those contributions must not be at the mercy or control of a commercial entity -- that is my personal requirement. I don't expect Nokia to give a rats 4$$ about it, but that doesn't mean I don't. Either the NIT is fit for my purpose, or it's not. Hence, the purpose of the discussion.

I've heard of GNU projects going commercial, and suddenly the work of (rightfully pissed off) GNU developers became the commercial property of someone. And here we have a GNU project that's starting off with significant commercial ownership and control.

Now considering that (according to you) Flash is a critical component to the success of the NIT, that's indeed cause for concern. It means the future of the GNU products for it are not only dependent on Nokia, but also Adobe. Although I don't accept it. It makes little sense to me that the Mamona project can't succeed. As it stands, I'm tempted to trust that Flash is separable from the OS, along with other components that will be replaced under Mamona.