Thread: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-01-29 , 21:47
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Which aren't part of the base Android sources. Therefore you can't count cyanogen's run-in with Google against Android.
No but I wasn't using against Android I was using it against xda-dev's... where a vast majority of those ROM's *do* include those components. Did you read my post? I did say the Android OS is more freely available for porting. However, most of those things on xda-dev's are *technically* illegal, except for cyanogen's new "legal" roms and some that take his methods of "copying" the proprietary components over.

And while Maemo's governance is more open, it isn't obvious how much power it has nor does it give enough indication of future courses to quell threads like this or the other whiner thread.
I'm not quite sure what you were getting at with this...I *think* I agree with your second part if I am understanding it right.. Nokia has a more open ecosystem with regards to it being "your" device than either Google or Apple, however Nokia has very little in the way of announcements or customer interaction that I've witnessed.

As far as How much "power" maemo has? It's blatantly obvious to me... it's a GNU/Linux system.
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