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	ysss	2011-02-23 , 14:48
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Originally Posted by jprobichaud

Yes and no. If Nokia isn't interested in buying AlienDalvik for maemo, then how much money are they making from the N900 community?

Selling their VM & libs to the end-users would be one way of recuperating a *little* (I admit) bit of cost from their demo. For sure, it won't be the same level of money than it would be from a operator agreement, but still better than nothing. The real issue would be the maintenance costs, but that's a different issue.

I'm trying to understand how to recompile dalvik for n900 looking at android-x86 and source.android.com, but that's not an easy task to achieve as a side project with few hours here and there...

By selling to the 'community', they're selling everything they got (the vm); most likely to be ripped apart and made as a standalone engine to run all the android apps like most emulation engine/layers (scumm, dosbox, etc).

1 sale per person, maybe for $50 each and that's it.

This 'leak' will most likely perpetuate to the MeeGo platform, limiting their sale further.

By licensing the engine to developers, they could negotiate a % of fee/royalty PER TITLE.

AND, they can work with the developer to do any sort of (interface) customization to ensure the end user's experience to be as good as possible, to increase the likelyhood of repeat customers.

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