Thread: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2
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Originally Posted by lardman View Post
Perhaps I missed an earlier point, but how is the OS (presumably Meego) becoming less open than Maemo? Or do you mean that Android is becoming more open than Maemo/Meego?

I've also got to disagree with your evaluation of Android as open - the hw abstraction layers certainly seem to me to be very closed. Even more so than Maemo originally was, and much of the user-facing code is also closed afaiu (application-wise, which was also the issue with Maemo).
I was pointing out that Maemo is FAR less open than Android, according to the statistics that were gathered a while back. I was also pointing out how the Android operating system is growing increasingly less dependent and separating from the closed-source applications, unlike Maemo. Even as Maemo progressed, it continued to accrue more and more closed-source, even while a trickle of closed-source became open. You might want to go back and read some more of this thread. MeeGo is a different beast which has NONE of that stupid closed-minded drek to deal with--except unless Nokia's flavor of an OS image has had extensive work to implement it right back in there, as I'm dreading might be the case--but none of us know that for certain yet.

Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Tim indicated on Twitter that a statement from the Council is coming.
Excellent! I'm eagerly awaiting SOMETHING to be said by the Council and I'm especially interested to know whether Nokia has shut them out or whether Nokia is communicating ANYTHING to them, at this point.
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