Thread: Harmattan?
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
what does this mean for the future of alternatives like debian and mer on maemo devices?
wouldn't it mean that they'd need to block any possibility to boot into an alternate OS or else consumers would simply avoid having the ad by using mer instead of maemo?

this would be more annoying than the ad itself, because it might lead to a design decision that affects both the subsidized and the non-subsidized variants.
That's called 'pulling an Archos' in short I just hope the amount of effort invested and possibilities of a fairly open OS make it clear to Nokia big people doing something like that would be shooting their whole tablet division in the foot with a mighty big caliber weapon.