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	sapporobaby	2007-02-26 , 21:50
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Originally Posted by penguinbait

No flames comming here, but show me one other OS that can run on a furby, dvr, firewall, as400, 64way Power 5, mainframe.

Even on an phone, or internet tablet.

Without opensource that would never happen. Open source has delivered huge contributions to the WORLD. The problem is most of the cool stuff of which you speak is done by people who want it to work for them, then they share, projects get started and merge, and grow.

Well of course. We all would want it to work. Who wouldn't? This is the problem as I have seen it and stated it. Much of what I see is aimed at developers who in most cases are not really interested in a finished or polished project, or just something thrown together and then left. No one said the OS community is not contributing but what I see, and I can only speak for myself, is not very impressive. As I have stated time and time again, the N800 will die if it does not appeal to the mass market and provide a unique selling point. Right now, it is in the "nice to have gadget niche" simply because it is not appealing in terms of applications that the masses would deem useful. Think about it. The bloody thing can not even sync data. Like I said, nice to have but not really useful. To be honest, I am an early adapter, and lucky enough to have money to buy pretty much want I want, so I bought this without even knowing what it is or could do, but now that I have it and see the potential, I turned to the OS community for solutions and much of what I see is pretty much a pile of ideas.