Thread: Would you miss the Council if it was gone?
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Matan is offline Matan
2010-08-11 , 19:22
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#151
Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
As has been said, Nokia are providing resources to develop the N900 adaptation layer (and, in their spare team, the same people are working on the N8x0 adaptation layer). Of course, anyone can chip in - and, indeed, that's necessary. The lack of community engagement didn't help the Hacker Editions or Mer.
Is any of the following list provided by Nokia? Because In my opinion all of it is necessary in order to have a chance of real free software community interest:
  • License to distribute all necessary binary firmware.
  • Information on power system enough to write replacement BME.
  • Information about the modem enough to use both voice sms and data using all protocols (GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSUPA).
  • Information about the GPS chip enough to have A-GPS.
  • Bootloader information needed to write a free flasher.

Without all these you cannot really have a free distribution.
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"N900 community support for the MeeGo-Harmattan" Is the new "Mer is Fremantle for N810".

No more Nokia devices for me.