Thread: Will MeeGo finally end the Rapid Obsolescence Syndrome (ROS)
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Matan is offline Matan
2010-03-03 , 12:48
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Originally Posted by johnel View Post
MeeGo is open-source.

The obsolescence argument makes no sense!

When MeeGo is eventually ready I would imagine it will be possible to port it to older devices too - 770, n800 & n810 as well as the n900.

This is either a lie or said out of ignorance.

The devices (770, N800, N810, N900) are closed - a lot of their functionality depends on closed drivers (kernel or user space) from Nokia, so only Nokia can port meego (or any other OS) to those devices, but they already indicated they do not intend to do it. You can still hope that they give you the necessary information, either by documentation of the hardware they use or by opening their code, but there is no real reason to expect it to happen.
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"N900 community support for the MeeGo-Harmattan" Is the new "Mer is Fremantle for N810".

No more Nokia devices for me.
 

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