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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
...Maemo isn't open-source, it's open-core (it's not even open-development, as evidenced by all the portions that only Nokia can patch or fix as you can see from all the FIXED IN _NEXT OS_ and WONTFIXES, and so on, that the community hasn't even been allowed to see code for much less have access to the repositories to fix themselves FOR Nokia). MeeGo will hopefully end up being a different story but I can't help this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach after living out the last several years with a Nokia device and watching how they've treated us so far all while beating their chest about openness and giving back to the community.
Except that Intel, now the single biggest proponent of MeeGo, sits at the other end of the tech food chain from Nokia and directly benefits from OS openness to the point that they are much more serious about it.
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