Thread: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-06-08 , 02:02
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Originally Posted by ZShakespeare View Post
android: have fun using your google phone with no google apps.
Lack of Google's custom apps doesn't cripple the device, and there are alternative app stores for Android.

the "maemo is not a phone" argument: both Android and iPhone are fantastic mobile computers as well as phones then. It doesn't matter what labels you stick on it.
Indeed, when I was looking at phones my first choice was Android (iPhone was never an option, due to no HW keyboard.) But Maemo had a technical base that I liked better.

I find nothing wrong with the N900 that can be blamed on Open Source, neither the fundamental software nor the concept. Any flaws lie with Nokia.

Can you get your argument back on track or are you going to keep bouncing around?

EDIT: More blather

Originally Posted by PradaBrada View Post
Yes, the MPAA and RIAA aren't solutions to piracy, changing of pricing or a better distribution model is.
Glad we can agree on something.

If it is solely used for the sake of being a free alternative or for the fact it doesn't let the users get classed with the rest of the "Windows sheep", which are ironically the two main reason half of the pinguin club uses it.
Wait, so are you suggesting that there might be VALID REASONS for using and developing open source? Or are you suggesting that "Not Buying Microsoft is Communism?" I'm trying to get your point, other than attacking Open Source for being Open Source.

Actually it makes perfect sense!
Well, no it doesn't. People get jobs writing open source software. Some people contribute freely.

They prove that an open gaming industry is almost inherently not profitable.
And I've never argued against it, seeing as how they're an entertainment product with little value beyond the initial play. But then you have the recent Humble Indie Bundle that had most of the companies release their engine sources as open source software.

Open source sucks hurr durr!
Well that's all I'm hearing from you and ZShakespeare.
Last edited by wmarone; 2010-06-08 at 02:08.