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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
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.
Intel is doing the "right" thing in terms of license, when looking at the "moral" side of it. They aren't doing anything wrong, and certainly will not get into any trouble. When looking from a distro point of view, they are not doing anything "wrong" either, but very little good also. The open source community will benefit very little from Meego, the only thing being the WM.

The point here is that there are no legal implications or licensing implications of any kind when using closed drivers that are made public by the vendors. None whatsoever. It is only a problem that exists in some open source nazis heads. Meego is not meant to be a distro in the normal sense, but is meant for OEM, and they will include closed drivers. Not only drivers, but lots of other closed things as well.