Thread: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2
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2010-12-07 , 23:33
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
And Nokia's apps will (almost certainly) be closed source.
I sincerely hope and expect the email client at least to be open.

So to get those working requires a level of ABI compatibility
Hm, do we know if Harmattan is still softfp?

Open MeeGo running (some) Harmattan apps might be doable - but I'm struggling to believe it'll be a polished experience, to be honest; and what if Harmattan's apps/SSU repo requires a valid Harmattan device IMEI?
There's a big spanner in the works here: platform security. Open MeeGo won't have access to the TPM chip (unless we can convince Nokia to sign our kernels every time, extremely doubtful IMHO), and even if Nokia gives us .debs that will install most of the apps will need platsec to protect user data etc so won't work.
 

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