Qgil,

Has a single N900 component been opened since the N900 launch? It seems there have been plenty of games to play, but in the end, nothing has been opened.

I think it's been like 2 years since you said the flasher would be opened.

Basically, you set up some arcane process for getting software opened. So anyone that wanted anything opened, just got directed there. Once the person wrapped their head around the "correct" way to request something opened and actually got something sumbitted, it just sat there. In the mean time, you bought yourself a few months more of delay.

Now you are saying, "oh, well, not MAEMO, now we have this thing called MeeGo" which you seem to be implying in this thread will actually have open hardware (??). So that will buy you another year of delay and nothing getting done.

How to Destroy Your Community:
"8: Screw around with licensing. Community members tend to care a lot about licenses, so changing the licensing can be a good way to make them go elsewhere. Even better is to talk a lot about license changes without actually changing anything..."
http://lwn.net/Articles/370157/