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2010-07-31 , 13:50
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Originally Posted by qwerty12 View Post
Citation, please? Last time I checked, the Galaxy's kernel ships with the object files for their drivers in contrast to Nokia which do give you the full source for their N900 kernel stuff. (Not that I'm putting Nokia on a pedestal here: The last time I checked, what Nokia make up for in open sourcing their kernel stuff, they make up for in closing other stuff. E.g. fmtx_si4713 is open, fmtxd is not. After all, MeeGo on the N900 shall need closed components to run.)

Truth be told, I don't place much faith in Samsung and open source, either. I have a Samsung TV (I can ****ing telnet into my TV!) and their source offerings for that are like Nokia's: Just mostly the opened GNU components that they're obligated to provide, not really their stuff.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739823

Particularly the first posting and the last posting where they indicated "Another member says that they have been in contact with Samsung and that they(Samsung) intends on releasing the full driver source sometime next week. Whenever the complete source is released, I will update the links."

Mind you, this means it's not fully open yet (we'll have to wait on a tangible release of that code to actually claim that), but it seems positive. Even with what WAS released in the package, according to a cursory examination by STSKeeps, it appears to have more opened code than Maemo 5.

There's a whole thread on this at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=59502

After dancing this open-source jig with Nokia, I'm willing to give Samsung a chance to really prove themselves where Nokia has failed repeatedly despite assurances and claims. We'll see, though. I'm hopeful.
 

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