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2011-02-18 , 16:25
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
It means creating something sellable.
Well, Nokia always said that sales were greatly exceeding their expectations. Apparently they never intended these devices to be commercially successful, but people bought them and loved them anyway.

That is correct. But the FOSS community has a very big impact on the NIT series. At the very least, it has more access/control/contrib over the project compared to other closed/proprietary platforms.
In theory maybe, in practice you need a willing upstream in order to contribute effectively. Patches getting ignored or, if you're lucky, getting accepted but only for the next device doesn't exactly encourage participation.

Still, we now have CSSUs for 4 out of 5 Maemo devices so if you want to scratch an itch on an open component you can :-)
 

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