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2010-12-10 , 02:00
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#13
Originally Posted by turbowei View Post
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'.
Some people should go buy an iphone and leave us alone
is all i can say - and best wishes on future bliss in Appland.

Those of us who bought into the n900 for the linux aspect
will still be here hacking away, batching, moaning, complaining and coding
-- doing all that stuff that makes the new apps free-loaders
want to just fall off somebody else's tree.

(CLUE - we did not buy it because it was going to be an OOBE,
we bought it because we knew it could be bent to our desires)

Those who want closed source packages have an entire planet full
of excellent pre-packaged already-stamped-out-for-you
and-wipes-your-budding-be-happy-no-carisms lockware.

There are far too many great close sourced alternatives in the market
for people who whine about OSS to be hanging around here dribbling nonsense.
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