Thread: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
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johnel is offline johnel
2010-01-31 , 13:29
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Originally Posted by jsa View Post
Out of curiosity, why? You can buy always buy it unlocked. The "open mode" will be available at least on unlocked phones and as far as I understood it, it's pretty much like what you get with Maemo 5 now.

It's up to each one to decide whether they think that's worth having and they do have the choice. If Nokia wants to take this mainstream they have to woo operators(possibility to sim lock) and they have to woo companies(possibility to use DRM).

I have a bad feeling this thread is about to derail though, which is not what I intended with my original question.
Just looked at the slides pointed at to from the original post it appears the DRM aspect is indeed "optional".

Generally should not be an issue if you buy the device directly from Nokia.

The question is if you decide to use an open source version of the kernel you will not be able to use any software that signs itself to the security framework.

Worst case scenario would be something like the phone/modem is proprietary and is "security-enabled". Would this mean you may not be able to access it via an open source kernel?

I don't expect Nokia would lock-out something essential like this but it does raise a few questions.

I suppose all we can do is wait and see what Maemo 6 brings.
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