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Originally Posted by sdstrowes View Post
Sure. There have been many threads about the poor quality of the N900's built-in camera app. This is a great opportunity for something better.
Now if Nokia would REPLACE their ugly-as-mortal-sin proprietary crap camera app with this as part of the actual OS image, so you don't have to have your precious app installation space occupied by that worthless version, instead blessed with this much better open-source version... Nokia would garnish that TINY bit more respect and be able to claim they opened a tiny bit more of the OS to the community. (Mind you, as I've always kinda suspected.. they would be claiming openness credit on someone's else's efforts despite inconsiderately CLOSED-SOURCE coding their own applications and drivers from the start.)

Anyway, it would help that TINY bit for Nokia. I feel like Stanford gets most of the credit for this, considering how Nokia coded their own crap closed. Props to the Stanford guys! A little grudging props to Nokia--at least they FINALLY did the right thing.