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2010-08-17 , 13:20
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Based on this discussion I will explain the current situation to the people responsible of the business decisions of opening Nokia software.
Is there anything that we (the community) can do? I mean, does
it even make sense to request for opening closed source
packages. I followed some bug reports regarding closed source
packages. They got a WONTFIX, Ok. But what scares me are
the reaons:

For example:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5549#c9
Resolving this request as WONTFIX. We got an internal discussion and there has
been a business decision not to open this component.

The reasoning is that Nokia wants to concentrate its open development and the
development attention in the components developed for the MeeGo platform.
libosso-abook is not part of the MeeGo architecture and Nokia doesn't have
plans to develop it further.
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10870#c1
Resolving as WONTFIX.

The Maemo 5 libraries will not be touched at this point unless there are severe
issues around them. All the new open development related with SMS is
concentrating on the MeeGo OS. The SMS functionality is handled entirely with
open source components. See
http://meego.com/developers/meego-ar...comms-services for more details.
And please don't tell me, the best we can do is to wait for
meego, I *know* this (from a developer point of view).
I am happy to see all this efford to create an open source
base OS (meego). But we are not only developers we are
users, too.
Please don't misunderstand me. I am (but not only)
interested to work for a good new future system.
But I am interested to work now for maemo5, too

So, again. Is there anythink we can do?

Regards
Nicolai
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