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#36
Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post
One of the recurring themes I keep seeing here is how "open" maemo is. And how quite a few people wish it were more open. Something along the lines of: I'd never get an iphone because it's locked down.... Yet here we are discussing asking people to shut down their repositories and only use the "approved" repository.
Openness != anarchy. The other key difference is that it's not 'approved' but rather 'highly recommended' (unless you think that writing an application mail to Niels is a big deal ). You'd be right if there was no legal and/or technical way of using 3rd party repositories at all, which is not the case.