Thread: Closed Source Packages in Maemo
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SD69 is offline SD69
2009-09-22 , 20:53
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How do we know that the bugs and "fixed in Fremantle" situation that occurred with Diablo and the n8x0 NITs won't be repeated with Fremantle and the N900?

Originally Posted by Stskeeps View Post
My personal hope - that we'll have a strong enough community development going on that we either

1) never get in the situation
This is my hope as well, but, being realistic, what reason do we have to think the situation won't happen again. We already see signs of it from statements like: "sorry, we realize it's an unfortunate situation, but we didn't have the resources to fix in time for initial launch" and "the Maemo Devices team is focused in the Maemo 5 release and any resource available jumps to Harmattan". I, for one, (because I realize the challenges of adding 3G telephony to Maemo among other BIG advances in the platform, not as a reflection of the Maemo team) wouldn't be surprised if there are quite a few bugs in Fremantle.

2) have developers crossing the 'divide' along who's willing to dedicate some time with some fixes and being allowed to publish results with

3) infrastructure and procedures in community to make community variants / SSU's to deliver these fixes
I thought Nokia already indicated they wouldn't let developers cross the divide by signing NDA's. Or maybe you're referring to some different here??

4) a community which can make a precise request for X source to be opened, along with list of people who can actually do something about the source if it was opened and what they would do.
What has been the success rates of previous attempts to do this? Isn't it limited or inconclusive (still waiting on TI graphics drivers)?
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