On 19 March 2010 21:34, Katrina Niolet <[email protected]> wrote: > Some vendors (eg of components already in the N900) will quite simply never > release all of their drivers under an open source license even though some > of the largest companies in the world have tried to convince them they > should.
Then we need accept that the minor vendors have more power than Nokia & Intel. In the case of N900 until today the arguments of Nokia are the following: http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages The first five arguments are based in things like "brand", "differentiation", etc. Although Nokia & Intel would release the drivers and convince to the minor vendors to release the drivers under open source conditions, their business is going to keep protected. They have enough patents about all the stuff related with the devices in order to "protect" their innovations. So, why we don't put our effort to reach a COMPLETE open source project? With the partnership between Intel & Nokia the possibilities are very high. Regards, Adrian. > > -- > Katrina > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Stephen Gadsby > Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 2:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] N900 Questions... > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Adrian Yanes <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is not fiction, the largest manufacturer of mobile phones and the >> largest semiconductor chip maker are together doing a project and we >> are speaking here about that we need use closed components because >> some vendors are going to release these components as closed-source? >> >> Really? Can't Nokia & Intel negotiate this thing with the vendors? > > Well, since the Intel GMA 500 is used in the Nokia Booklet 3G... > > -stephen > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
