Hi, ext Adrian Yanes wrote: > We asked to Nokia when was Maemo, this is the response: > > http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages > > Arguments like "brand" and "differentiation" are present in the > official response. > > So before involve other vendors, would be nice if your company clarify > their own components.
As it is pointed out in the wiki page you are linking, if you want a Nokia closed component to be open, please see http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_development/Licensing_change_requests This is meego-dev and you are asking about binaries in Maemo based Nokia products. We had this discussion plenty of times at maemo.org and you are free to continue it at maemo.org. Please limit your discussion here to the MeeGo stack and how it plans to handle closed binaries officially supported. > The fact is that now Intel and Nokia are together. They can obtain > these components, even without money. Do you mean that without money one can write the best drivers for latest hardware? I'm not a big fan of closed binaries for hardware adaptation but I understand that companies involved in this complex and highly competitive activity want to pay salaries and bring benefits to shareholders. > Perhaps the world is not perfect but it doesn't mean that we should > not have the best intentions to improve it. Looking at the IT & mobile industries it looks like Intel and Nokia are actually championing with best intentions when it comes to investments in open source. This is only my personal opinion, but I think open source adoption in the mobile industry is going as fast as it gets evolving without breaking the business models in this industry. The argument pushed sometimes by free software enthusiasts (also in this thread) is that big corps like Nokia or Intel could push the free licenses further thanks to its predominant position in the market. Even if that would be true, the execution would remove a bunch of smaller innovative players from the map (acquired, bought out, pushed out of business). If that would be a better world for software freedom, I don't know. -- Quim Gil open source advocate Maemo Devices @ Nokia _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
