From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of ext Adrian Yanes [[email protected]] Sent: 19 March 2010 22:21
> Then we need accept that the minor vendors have more power than Nokia & > Intel. I think it's not a matter of power, but rather persuasion. We certainly would rather have open drivers but sometimes the IP vendor has different business model and it just doesn't work to apply brute force. And obviously somebody who enjoys a monopoly position (regardless of the reasons) is less willing to give up on anything. One of the strenghts of open source is to not be in a hurry: if something makes sense, it will eventually prevail. Currently I think OpenMoko has proven that there is no market for Open but underperforming products. Consumers vote with their wallet and both nokia and Intel need to listen to them, otherwise goodbye predominant position. So we need to come to compromises sometimes. But I believe I can state, without fear of being proven wrong, that we are going in the right direction and this istestified by the N900 kernel being untainted. It just takes time, patience and perseverance. igor _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
