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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
It's also a battle that has already borne fruit. Texas Instruments has greatly increased openness and become very active in the Linux development for OMAP3. ST-NXP Wireless released the specs for the WiFi chips in the N800 and N810, which resulted in an open source WiFi driver.

No, we're not there yet, but you can hardly accuse Nokia of neglecting this issue.
True enough, credit to them for that.. but I can't help this nagging sense that I still won't see these mystical improevments. Like I said about the WiMax roll-outs, "I'll believe it when I see it." I hear there are people with WiMax.. but I still haven't seen it. It might as well not exist, for all the coverage it's rolled out so far. I'm getting this same sense here. I really hope I'll be proven wrong. Be ready to tell me you told me so if I end up being satisfied after all.

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Idealism is all well and good, but this is the real world we live in where everything can't be black and white. Would you really rather there had been no tablets at all if the hardware hadn't been 100% open?
Certainly not--but it doesn't stop me from whining just the same as the end-user that just wants to actually and finally OWN the product I'd bought.
 

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