Thread: I'm Porting Blackberry Messenger on the N900
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sjgadsby is offline sjgadsby
2010-12-22 , 11:51
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Originally Posted by dhanurdhar View Post
thats completely true but what about porting something like whats app for the N900... its basically a BB app on the symbian phones so it is possible...
any thoughts
Yes, that was "one of the suggestions put forth to port other closed-source applications". Without the source, it's not porting, it's reverse engineering and reimplementing. And, depending upon your location on the globe, getting unhappy letters from lawyers representing the developers of the original app.

Originally Posted by BigGuy1992 View Post
ok so how about a software that can run BB apps like an emulator then u can run BBM via that??
Do you know of an open source, BlackBerry OS equivalent to Wine? One that isn't being threatened by RIM's lawyers, perferably. And a legal way of getting RIM's proprietary BBM software for running upon the translation layer? And a method of generating the needed pins, the ones that are normally tied to BlackBerry hardware?
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