Thread: [Council] Nokia response to MyNokia subscription in PR1.2
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2010-07-04 , 08:59
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Originally Posted by Cue View Post
Bad example. I wouldn't call that admitting to a problem (not the one raised anyway) nor a fix (unless it's a PR fix) but I do agree with the point you are trying to make about the advantages of open source.

That was a very good read about open core. The problem for me is that I do not see any alternatives for Nokia.

To me ( Not being a pro programmer) it appears that Nokia have actually done what is suggested in that article, closed portions of it where somebody with time can create an alternative from the core, but perhaps I have misunderstood the article?
Well, people have had a couple of years or more to try rewriting drivers and other closed portions on the older Nokia tablets... how's that going, then? More importantly, try asking them (Mer, for example) for hardware details so that drivers CAN be written. Go ahead. Then come back here and let me know whether Nokia has done what the article is suggesting. When it comes to writing a critical portion of the operating system that deals with the hardware and there's no openness, there's not a lot of enablement for writing an open alternative. (See also nvidia proprietary accelerated drivers vs open-source unaccelerated drivers.)
 

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