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namtastic	2009-01-12 , 03:51
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Originally Posted by Matan

This is exactly the point - I can fork FBReader, I can fork debian (another analogy that came up in this thread), but I can't fork OS2008.

The problem I discuss here is not that the system is closed (that's for another discussion) - but that some people claim it is more open than it actually is.

Pretty much the point I was trying to make in the previous thread, too.

Nokia is finally getting the closed-source parts opened, but there's been a lot of frustration building up behind wanting (or even being able) to patch/fix things that simply wouldn't survive an official update that will hopefully diffuse once we get Mer.

"Building up" being the keyword here; It's not that running into off-limits parts alone is the problem, it's the length of time doing so.

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