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2009-10-01 , 23:43
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Originally Posted by Thesandlord View Post
LiMo, AFAIK, is a proprietary stack running on top on Linux.
Sounds like WebOS .

Yet LiMo allows Java, web applications and native.

That is more than say iPhoneOS (not allow any interpreter, only JavaScript or sth is allowed, no Flash no Java no emulators) or Android (only 'Java' and web applications).

I'm not claiming I know it all but there deserves to be a more detailed answer to the question how much of LiMo is proprietary, and which parts exactly.

Android and Maemo are MUCH MUCH more open source than it.

Basically, all the phone companies are lazy, so they came together to make a open-source kernel and middleware to run their platform on. Like TiVo, Archos, and other companies that use Linux, the platform itself is locked down with proprietary interfaces and the like, so its harder to hack in that sense.
Vodafone is rather a telco.

Archos runs Linux + Android. HTC runs Linux + Android. WebOS runs Linux. Yet they all contain proprietary bits too.

Any open OS can be closed down by design (and hacked by enthusiasts). Does not matter if its Android or Maemo or whatever.
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