Thread: [Council] Nokia response to MyNokia subscription in PR1.2
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Crashdamage is offline Crashdamage
2010-06-30 , 23:02
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Originally Posted by ndi View Post
I'm sorry, I scanned both links. I have detected the following differences:

* Maemo is Linux, which is open.

* MeeGo is Linux, which is open.

Please point out the mistake. Can't see the BIG difference for the user. (if you meant as a matter of principle and openness, I agree, it's a difference).
I did mean as a matter of principle - mostly, not entirely. And anyway, the links were not intended to answer any argument about which OS is most open. Those links were to point out the difference between a company - Google or Nokia for instance - controlling the OS or the public - aka the Linux Foundation - controlling it, managing it. IOW, they were an answer to your question of why does hosting by the Linux Foundation matter and what is different.

Open, closed, open, closed. I'm a user...The advantage of an open system is that you can fix your own darn bug. Can I? No...you can read the source, make sure someone doesn't steal your personal info. Can I? No. It's closed to me.
You don't code, I take it, so you can't fix bugs. I get it, I don't code either. So why should open systems matter so much to me, why don't I go back to Android and all those apps (leaving aside the fact Maemo/MeeGo is a more powerful, capable OS)?

Think of it like this: can you fix your own car? Maybe, if you have the knowledge. But if your an average person, no, so it's closed to you, the hood is locked.

So...then does it matter if you own the car or lease it? After all, it still operates the same, goes the same places, runs on the same fuel, looks the same as other cars like it whether you own or lease. If it runs the same, does it matter who's managing care of the car?

Well, it matters a LOT. If you lease, you can't change anything, no customizing, you can't fix it yourself and have to get it fixed at certain shops, etc. etc. Basically, the lease company can tell you what to do and charge you for not following instructions or driving too much.

But...if you own that same car, you can change what you want, fix it yourself if you're able, take it where you want if not, drive it all you want, etc. etc.

I thought that Nokia and Intel made the project, and it was hosted by TLF. Now I understand that TLF controls it. Yes, well, if they have the ability to force (legally) MeeGo to go all-open, that's another story.
They have legal authority over MeeGo itself, but not drivers, custom UIs or extra applications manufacturers may include in their MeeGo variants unless those additions are also open-source.

Care to elaborate? And it's spyware, viruses replicate.
Well, you said it. Viruses replicate, spread, infect. They might contain spyware, they might not. Spyware is not a virus unless it does those things. The cherry bomb is malware, maybe spyware, but not a virus.

Does anyone else care? Does anyone else know? I've had devices for the last 15 years or so, I never knew my device called home. I still have trouble believing it.

Six and a half times more users want grouping than to stop having their phone number shipped to a company and its partners.

People either don't know or don't care.
No doubt, J.Q. Public is uninformed and unconcerned about this stuff. It's how Google, Double-Click, Facebook and many other companies got rich.

If they don't care, then the time spent typing here could possible be better used.
Probably. But work is slow today.
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