Thread: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-06-07 , 23:53
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Originally Posted by PradaBrada View Post
Delusional appreciation for Nokia's closed "open source" practices, typical symptom of Stockholm syndrome.
Oh come the **** on man, your insistence constantly that those of us who don't hate the device are somehow abused and suffering from some mental illness is pretty goddamn pathetic. Nokia's handling of Maemo has been bad, but then we look at MeeGo which won't suffer from having things like a closed media players. I knew the device wasn't 100% open when I bought it, but it sure as hell was nicer than Android, which keeps you bottled up into a nonstandard Java sandbox. And with MeeGo, everything comes from upstream so you aren't reinventing the wheel or running something so horribly branched that it isn't compatible with the project it came from.

Drivers are the result of software patent BS and a closed mentality driven by Microsoft for years. Fortunately this is changing, but video chip companies (and Broadcom, for some reason) keep fighting it.

Open source/Linux promoters always talk about free software and the benefits of having an own understanding of software.
That you can't take advantage of it is no reason to dismiss the concept.

In actuality most of them aren't doing anything useful with their knowledge, it isn't paying the bills for anyone, it is just providing a free platform for a few basement dwellers and some people who don't want to pay for paid alternatives.
Come on man, **** on us some more. Bring up more piss poor arguments. Some people like the fact that their software vendor can't hold them hostage.

These promoters are analogous to the so-called experts who think they know better than their doctors just because they have access to Wikipedia.
Are you a psychologist? Can you identify "Stockholm syndrome" or are you just saying that because you have access to Wikipedia.

The people who promote open source tend to be involved in the industry. They may not drop down into the code of every program they use, but they do see the advantages of having what is effectively a transparent system.

That is until they realize that developing is practically a job and requires pay. And thats why Nokia will never fully release their sources.
Many developers are paid quite well to work on open source. Most kernel contributors these days are paid to work on it. Suggesting that by being open source you are fundamentally incapable of earning money, and that the only way is to be closed source, is the height of ignorance.
 

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