Thread: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2
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2010-12-19 , 14:05
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
The thing is, Nokia isn't wrong when they say it's the most open "mainstream" GNU/Linux mobile distribution, so from their PoV there isn't much incentive to be more open. It'd be nice if someone else stepped up and gave them a run for their money. Who knows, maybe this time next year we'll be comparing the relative openness of various vendors' MeeGo products.
See, that's the thing. From the looks of things, it would appear that the OS is becoming far less open than Android--which is kinda pathetic given it's whole selling point is being open-source. While Nokia opens up certain portions (which seems like pulling teeth, to start with), they ADD more and more closed-source components to the OS that you can't exclude without harming the system. Whereas Android already has a larger open of open-source to closed, and they're unmarrying a lot of the closed-source as a dependency--so you CAN replace them with open-source without harming the whole Android eco-system. Nokia hasn't got bragging rights to being more open than anyone else lately. Maybe back in 2006/2007, but certainly not anymore--even amongst large mobile OS's that they compete against.

Originally Posted by eachna View Post
99% of the time I'm ssh'ed into my phone, running tinyfugue, and telnetting out to MUD/MUSH. The rest of the time I'm running around like Gir from "Invader Zim", chanting "What's that do? what's that do?" while trying out new (to me) software in extras.
Oh God. Another fellow MU*er. May you never get @toaded.
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