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#412
Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
the non-topic part:
As my personal opinion, Maemo is not some ideological struggle. We don't open source because of ideology but because of the pragmatic thought of it being the best method for us to make compelling experiences and products for our customers. That's how things should be, as far as I see. Open source is utilized because it is good, not because it is some holy crusade. For me that is the far more interesting angle in Maemo and open source: balancing openness with interests of a multinational corporation. Sticking to absolutes is easy but easily gets you nowhere, making compromises is hard but it can get you somewhere. Making something where everybody, including Nokia, wins.

the on-topic part:
Does somebody know about the N900 Canola? It sounds like a good candidate for this then. Now that the N900 Media player does a lot more than previously, user need for Canola to exist separately has somewhat decreased. Anidel, anybody?
Uh?

Anidel...what?

I thinik I missed something in this thread... why am I been called to comment?

If the built-in media player does its job, I don't see a need for Canola,
But I am sure many people are used to it, like it and we'll ask for it. I've seen Etrunko working on the port, but he also stated it was slow due to some 32bit library? Confused...

Canola's also had some new plugin development from this summer Google Code, so we'll see what it'll bring on the table.

Anidel