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Originally Posted by garyc2010 View Post

1) TRULY OPEN SOURCE the platform

2) Adopt Android
I have used (battled with/against) MeeGo on my netbook for some months now, and I'm not sure I agree to 1. The MeeGo netbook side of the force is truly open source, to the point of fanatical. This means that no, and I mean not a single byte, can be non-open source, and this is badly hurting the usefulness of the OS since lots of drivers are closed, typically wifi drivers. When the wifi is not working on a netbook, it kind of spoils the whole thing. Closed drivers are made available by the vendors to be distributed along with any Linux distro, but the MeeGo team refuses to include them. After some head scratching, googling and compiling drivers, everything eventually work, but this amount of fiddling is way beyond what the average netbook user will ever do. All in all, this fanatical openness effectively restrict MeeGo to be used exclusively by OEM except from some models by some vendors that has the "correct" combination of hardware with open source drivers available. I therefore believe that "truly open source" is meaningless unless you happen to manufacture all the relevant chips yourself as Intel do.

Adopt Android: I am starting to believe that as well. I don't think Nokia is incapable of making an equally great OS, but so far they have shown utter incompetence in dealing with the customers while developing it. When the OS eventually is finished (after God knows how many "steps" and 90 degree turns), there will be no one left to use it.
 

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