Thread: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
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2010-06-08 , 00:29
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
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.
Since there are already similar or even better choices its a classic example of too little, too late.

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
That you can't take advantage of it is no reason to dismiss the concept.
There isn't much to take advantage of when I can get the same somewhere else for a bit more money and alot less hassle. Its the same reason I would purchase a car instead of collecting junk from the scrapheap and trying to make one myself.

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
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.
I'm merely sharing what I have learned from experience and observation of both experience and statistics. In the real world consumers use predominantly Windows and OSX.

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Are you a psychologist? Can you identify "Stockholm syndrome" or are you just saying that because you have access to Wikipedia.
Medicine student, the psychiatry lecture on the syndrome which my professor gave was quite fascinating.

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
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.
Like alot of things, the N900 and communism to name a few, it may seem good in theory, but in practice it plays out quite different.

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
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.
They get paid to work until someone else completes their work for free!

If they are working toward getting money for what they develop and therefor gain more ground in the market, they are no better than the big bad closed corporations, only smaller and envious of the other teams' success.