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	qole	2009-02-02 , 18:23
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Originally Posted by Stskeeps

This is -me- asking, what we need to put our focus into looking at trying to make work in Mer. All Nokia has asked for, is a list... Why we're asking for reasoning, is to make it possible to prioritize our time in determining where it's even worth spending time on trying to integrating the closed source bits.

Thanks for clarifying. It seemed like you were saying Nokia was asking for justification, and I didn't understand. This makes more sense.

I'm much more of the Ubuntu mindset, as opposed to the Debian mindset. If Nokia or nVidia only has binary blobs to give me, I'm not going to stick up my nose and say, "I can live without that functionality, if it means my device can be truly free!"

However, I know that there are people who do have a free-or-nothing attitude, and I respect that. Again, I like how Ubuntu does it. They don't install the non-free binary drivers by default, but they don't make it difficult to install them, either.

For instance, I would like the GStreamer DSP stuff and the Hantro encoder, but I know it's not strictly necessary to have it...

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