2010/3/22 Jeremiah Foster <[email protected]>: > > On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Carsten Munk wrote: > >> 2. We are willing to compromise on our ideology short-term and in the >> long-term help hardware vendors towards open source. > > You're willing to compromise. I'm not. > > Jeremiah >
This reply by Jeremiah didn't go to the mailing list for some reason. For good measure, I'd like to reiterate why -I think- it's important to compromise temporarily because of this. We have to make a proper and competitive end-user product with MeeGo in the short term. We can create world peace in the long term. Time to strike with a open source platform is now, not in 5 years. Or we'll be run over by 20% open source platforms on closed devices. If we create a open source platform that is succesful and competitive - because we were able to compromise on some very small areas, it is a better argument in the long term to encourage hardware vendors to open theirs drivers. Better than a failed open source platform which couldn't compete or attract developers and hardware vendors due to refusal to compromise. I don't personally believe militant open source is the way to go. I think practical open source is the way to go, seeing the big picture. Changing the world piece by piece instead of revolution. Regards, Carsten Munk _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
