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Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
but those key parts are very much understandable. nokia isn't a charity company and I myself concider maemo a major contribution to opensource -stuff.

if there weren't any closed parts, what would stop chinese companies from implementing straight the os free of charge to their cheaper devices? that would mean that nokia pays the bill for everybody for real costs occuring when developing maemo. (of course community makes part of the work free but there are paid professionals at nokia working completely with maemo)
Open source is suppose to be free, a company withholding software they developed for the platform or drivers for certain hardware is normal in opensource. If Maemo is truly opensource then you'd want companies in china installing and using maemo, they would just need to do their own driver aside from community developed/donated ones. If maemo has any closed source parts other then drivers or nokia developed software(security software and etc) for it then it's not truly open source. Why would it be a bad thing if all of china used Maemo or better yet the world ?

edit:
Is this really a bad thing ?
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/...-optima-op5-e/

Last edited by Slick; 2010-01-01 at 04:31.