Thread: A maemo-ized UMPC
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2007-02-06 , 10:19
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Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
I think it's a bit cheeky for the Chinese firm to use Maemo, unless they are in partnership with Nokia and that the two firms work together rather than against each other.
It's only cheeky if they've forked it and don't release their changes.

Why would they have to be in partnership with Nokia (apart from the technical problems and assumption in the current Maemo codeset)? It's in Nokia's interest to get other parties using Maemo - even without their involvement; which is why Maemo is open source.

The pitch for Maemo is to build a portable UMPC/Internet Tablet OS out of open source components, whilst that's tied to Nokia hardware and software releases, it'll never take off. A cheap UMPC using the same OS, however, would be wonderful.

Maybe the Maemo platform will become that little bit more hardware agnostic, the very issue which blighted the transition from 770 to N800.
Indeed.

Cheers,

Andrew

PS. Why the separate thread? With the old version of the software, the news announcement would have gone into the existing thread. Any chance they could be merged?
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