Thread: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
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2010-01-29 , 23:02
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Originally Posted by slux View Post
Maybe it is so that even forgetting about the kernel modules, you can't even get a basic phone implementation of Maemo that is completely free/open source at the moment. Even in that case I'd say it's not so simple to say "this one is more open than that one" because being able to run a free (minus the kernel modules) version is just one way of looking at it. I agree that it can be considered a fairly important factor though.
Repeat after me: There are no closed source kernel modules on a standard N900 firmware image. Find me one.

Phone parts - Ofono already runs under Mer (see jebba's post). Battery management, well, blob, but Nokia doesn't mind Nokia SW on Nokia devices. If the actual audio works (properly) in phone, not sure yet, but this is something we should work with getting working - at that point it would be comparable to a Freerunner in terms of usefulness
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