Thread: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2
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2010-12-09 , 11:32
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#89
Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
In my opinion, developing and producing an open OS based, open community supported device and deliver it with closed source application is a big mistake.
It was a mistake for the Nokia 770, N800, N810 and N900.
Yeah, it was a mistake and it was a big one. Although I'm sure they had their reasons. (With which I'm not familiar.)

Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
There is so much power in this community. Honestly, I don't see any advantage in developing again those applications as closed source components.
Nicolai
At least now we have open source versions of these applications. There are various reference applications in the Handset UX which look promising.
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