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Originally Posted by bsving View Post
MeeGo is run by Intel. Intel uses MeeGo as a means to cut off the software middle man (Microsoft and others), so the whole profit margin goes to Intel. Nothing wrong with that, but MeeGo is made and licensed to be 100% open source and to be used by OEM. 100% open source sounds nice, but it is not. It means that a fully functioning MeeGo will never be released, since most HW drivers are not open source, and the MeeGo team refuse to include these drivers in their distro. For MeeGo to be fully functional (on netbooks), someone else has to redistribute MeeGo along with all closed drivers.
Wait, are you saying this is good or that this is bad ? I had plenty of WTF moments reading posts by certain Intel MeeGos, but let's give credit to Intel where it's due. Intel is at least doing the right thing (with the notable exception of the ill-fated PowerVR/Poulsbo driver case) - they say, if we can provide open drivers for our hardware, we see no need for a 'special treatment' of companies who don't do that. With all their imperfections, they ARE fighting against closed drivers, and they should receive full kudos for that. As for providing Atom only images - they simply don't care about it (not a nice trait, but not a crime either). The moment someone at AMD or serious interests outside Intel actually comes to MeeGo and says - hey, I need it on some other hardware, such versions will pop-up in no-time. You don't see that now because Intel is at the forefront of MeeGo Core and AMD/others are sitting on the fence waiting to see what will come of it.
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