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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
Huh ? What ? MeeGo has an upstream-first policy, implying that it does not want to maintain versions of it's own - it wants to contribute everything to the source projects - you just can't get more beneficial to the community (naturally, with the presumption that upstream-first is not just lip-service).



Sorry, but this is just rubbish. It is not OEM in the sense that the Intel drivers ARE there. If Nokia or anybody else decided to make an Intel based platform, there would be no evil blobs to be included, that would be your base. And as for nazis... let me put on the danramos hat - after the 770, N800 and N810 (and N900), there is just no way you can say binary blob drivers are okay. No. Sorry. You just can't. If someone gets to be called a nazi because he doesn't want to get stuck with one OS version because of the kernel and driver version/config, something is very, very wrong.
As long as everyone stick to Intel HW and want to install the "default" MeeGo, no problem. If Intel manages to force others to open their source, this is very good, but I'm not convinced that this would be the result, it can go either way. Lets say ASUS, HP, Acer, MSI, Dell, Samsung and all the large ones decide to deliver netbooks with MeeGo preinstalled. Then the "openness" of any of the drivers is a no.issue. Surely an all Intel config will work as is, but other configs may be cheaper (and better).