Thread: Closed Source Packages in Maemo
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2009-10-02 , 17:55
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Originally Posted by luca View Post
Valid? Those are the pieces that, by being closed, won't let you replace the os.
If you don't have hardware acceleration, good power management, no gsm/gprs, you could as well buy a smartq instead of a nokia tablet.
Even Open Moko had to pick hardware with only closed source driver because these were the only hardware which fitted the bill (IIRC power related).

In this case of Nokia they are hardware drivers which require closed source driver because else there would be no driver at all.

The choice is simple: either PowerVR driver or no hardware acceleration or no good graphics chip.

You can run another OS with Linux kernel just fine, or an OS which also supports this hardware.

Originally Posted by Luke-Jr View Post
There exists no valid reason for software to be closed source. So, no.
if there is no valid reason whatsoever why on Earth does it exist?
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