>________________________________________ >From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Vollmer Marius (Nokia-D/Helsinki) >Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 9:11 AM >To: Poussa Sakari (Nokia-D/Helsinki) >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] N900 Questions... > >"Poussa Sakari (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <[email protected]> writes: > >> Reason for closed/binary components ? There are components like 3D graphics >> acceleration libs which are closed. As said, this is something that we can >> not >> do anything in the short term. This is the case also in N900 maemo repos. If >> developers wants to use those components they should be available in the >> repos, >> right ? > >I think it is important that all the non-free packages are very clearly >optional, and very clearly separable from the free ones.
When UI is based on OpenGL, how OpenGL drivers can be optional ? Or should we sacrifice usability of 99.9% of end users not using any OpenGL jost for making OpenGL drivers optional ? >I.e., it must be possible to get MeeGo running on the reference >platforms without any non-free package. The result might not perform >optimally, and not all hardware might be accessible, but it must boot to >the UI and be generally useful. Do you really think that Meego in N900 with SW accelerated Mesa OpenGL would be usefull ? >In other words, it should be possible to remove all non-free packages >from MeeGo without losing anything essential, and we should consider >actually doing this. That will be impossible in pocket sized device. Removing all OpenGL from UI removes also all usability features with compete aggainst iPhone and Android. I think that it is best to make as good UI as possible using all OpenGL tricks, if someone does not like closed OpenGL drivers, then s/he should vote with his/her valet and buy HW where is open source OpenGL drivers. >If the non-free packages are essential and can not be removed, MeeGo >would be a farce, in my opinion. Don't blame MeeGo about bad decisions of silicon makers. I hope that Intel reads this thread and we shopuld have Intel based reference platform with OSS OpenGL drivers. Kate _______________________________________________ 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
