On Mar 22, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Carsten Munk wrote: > 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. > > We have to make a proper and competitive end-user product with MeeGo > in the short term.
Carsten, the competitiveness comes from the fact that by using this product you get to market faster, without patent encumbrances and no vendor lock in. Not by letting people put random binary blob in the OS. > We can create world peace in the long term. Nice rhetorical flourish, but it isn't germane. > I don't personally believe militant open source is the way to go. Again, rhetoric. > I > think practical open source is the way to go, seeing the big picture. The simple fact is that we have a judicial system. That system is used for mediating license disputes. We can protect our products by ensuring that our software is properly licensed from the beginning. This is a highly practical, pragmatic view of the competitive business software landscape. Businesses will suffer if we compromise and allow non-free software into a free platform. Jeremiah
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