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So, if Maemo from top to bottom was actually fully open source, what would you actually do with it?

This thought is actually fairly reasonable, let me just list items that were OSS'ed that pretty much have tumbleweed surrounding it instead of interested developers contributing and developing and using it - some of them that people actually almost begged to get OSS'ed: WiFi driver (stlc45xx), DSME, alarm framework - and opened frameworks like hildon input method and other examples..

How about instead of going about demanding that everything should be 100% libre that we go and set up an organisation and distribution with what we actually do have OSS, that is capable of giving proper contributions back and actually valuing and using open sourced components when they do come instead of having the source gathering dust somewhere?

EDIT: oh, wait - we -are- working on that.
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Last edited by Stskeeps; 2009-09-22 at 19:02.
 

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