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#140
Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
Dont agree with you, great to get rid of one whinners in the Maemo/Meego community.

I dont give a **** what good he have done before cause I am so sick of whining this doesnt move the community forward!!! Nokia will not be more open cause of all whinings of people who doesnt know a shiut how bussines work. Ttere is NO hardwarecompany that has released all drivers as open source!

The fact is Nokia may decide to be more closed source and drop Meegoproject instead at the end and start using crappy windows mobile OS on highend instead, and thats not what I want as a Linux user/developer :-( :-(

Its insane how stupid people sometimes seems to be? Instead of whine about closed driver and shitty flash, just ask yourself this:

What is the altenatives if you want opennes and expremienting with the hardware?

Android? yeah right controlled by Google and HTC. How many totally open Android are there?!?

Ofcourse many thinks "Android is the best they have more apps and latest flash blablblabla" but as an european I dont want a big American company take control everything I do on the Internet Dont get me wrong Google has done alot good stuff for the OSS community but if they is the only its very bad at the end. Btw. There are plenty of people here that are angry cause the lack of payapps cause its not supported in northeuropean. And also flash has been discussed for several months so this is not only a problem in Maemo!!

So again is there othere alternative open?

Winmobile? I dont think so. Maybe the future for all windows fanboys but hell I will never use such crap OS.

Not talk about Iphone...
Forget that, if Nokia cannot walk the walk then they shouldn't talk the talk simple as that. Nokia makes great phones, but none of the phones had the entire package and focus put into it. Used and sourced hardware that believe in Open Source culture (Nokia has the clout to open these avenues and hasn't done enough in that regard). I rather see a company fully embrace it than see it warp and abuse the culture. Also fear not if they go the opposite way, it was money they came this way in the first place don't believe it otherwise ... and it will be only the loss of money that will take them the fully closed source model. Don't be naive, be a realists and know money, profits, and market share are the sole reasons for any decision and for Nokia the current strategy bodes well for them. So you might as well hold them accountable every chance you get as their are certain guidelines to follow in this sector don't ever let the company dictate their terms to you ... that is not open source values.