Thread: Thank you Nokia..
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turbowei is offline turbowei
2010-12-10 , 00:06
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#10
Originally Posted by theonelaw View Post
The only alternative to the n900 with its closed-source bits
is hacking phone-hardware and drivers etc. into a tablet computer
which would really be a pig with lipstick.
Furthermore, judging by the gear that is out there this is still
something which could be done but there would be no community
and would also be quite difficult to achieve in practice.
I dont know how many people really care about their phone being Open, but I can bet they are not even the majority of folks who purchased n900.

Open source zealots, please get off your high horses, and smell the coffee. There are far too many great close sourced alternatives in the market.

A phone/OS without close sourced apps is a zombie. Look at the great linux. Two critical pieces are close sourced. Skype and Flash, without which the only linux desktop users are left would be RMS himself.

And for a much more consumer driven device like a phone, the key for its success is app. As long as you have great apps for the platform, few people care about it being 'open source' or 'close source'.