Thread: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
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2010-01-29 , 21:33
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#505
Originally Posted by dyce View Post
is android considered more open than maemo then? the xda developer community ports later versions of android to their phone and its also possible to port it to n900. thee community here wont be able to have a community port to n900 of harmattan?
This was discussed here.

There are more proprietary components making up the base of Maemo than there are Android. They both have proprietary drivers, but some of the other parts of maemo that actually make it function are closed off as well. The base Android OS is totally available for anyone to compile and use and put their own drivers in place.

Plus, using things like xda-dev's isn't the best way to express "openness" considering, as I mentioned elsewhere, cyanogen got a Cease and Desist order from Google for distributing their proprietary software (maps, market, etc).
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