[QUOTE=danramos;917443]Then why did they DECREASE the openness as they went along, if they're so committed to open-source? Why commission a closed-source calendar application for an open-source operating system? Why prefer closed-source reliant hardware when there are more open-source friendlier ones? "

Again show me an example of an fully open source hardware on handset market!? OI havent even seen any fully open source drivers on PC market(Example: closed wifi/gfx drivers is some...).

Do you mean they should use an open source based calendar? DO they work with fully sync for OVi/IMAP whatever crap sokme needs? If they decided to go fully open calendar then even more people should startr bashing about halfdone stuff.

Another example is flash everyone is bashing about Flash 9 instead of Flash 10 is that component open!? Not a chance! Is there an open replacement that works. I can say no. So again not everything can be fully open.

" Maybe that one I could concede on a little and forgive some hardware drivers, but closed-source applications and forcing a dependency on them? Why the puffery about open-source at all, if you're going to just create a hard dependency on closed-source applications that you can't remove like the calendar, media player, etc.? Credit where it's due--at least they FINALLY did open up the camera drivers--but that still leaves an INCREDIBLY large amount of dependencies and closed-source to contend with."

Why can the calendar be removed? :-S Where did u get that from?


"By contrast, if I run CyanogenMod (without the Google Apps, I
might add) on my Droid--I have a firmware image constantly updated by the community all on its own with almost complete open-source and very, VERY little closed-source at all and no dependency on closed source except for the drivers and Dalvik."

Exactly the same for N900 then. = PowerKernel with USBHostmode, fcam instead of old camera driver, open source wifi driver etc...