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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Texrat, I'm not following you. N900 "monetization" is about users and (mostly application) developers. They are actually not that affected by any of the components requested to be opened, specially not in the short term.

Maemo 5 has an API to be exploited by app developers. Now with Qt 4.7 and Web Runtime there is more to exploit and point towards MeeGo, while still developing with the N900 as primary platform.

None of this has to do with opening platform components that, for Maemo 5, are considered stable now.
My point goes back to the reason many binary blobs stay closed: they are revenue drivers due to IP.

Once monetization is no longer a factor (i.e., technology has moved on) then I would hope there would be a natural process to by default begin opening previously closed bits.

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding something basic here. It's certainly possible.
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