Quoting Felipe Contreras <[email protected]>:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Marius Vollmer
<[email protected]> wrote:
I understand that the N900 wouldn't be a viable product without the
non-free components in it. But I hope that MeeGo can be a viable
platform for building products on without relying on non-free components
in all its useful configurations.
MeeGo is not tied to particular products or hardware platforms. If
some hardware platform needs proprietary drivers, there's not much
MeeGo (as a platform) can do.
This may be the wrong mailing list to discuss such topics, but I want
to make sure I belong here. I am here because I want MeeGo to be a
viable, competitive commercial product with a solid, sustainable
business plan. If that's *not* the goal of the "MeeGo" community, then
I don't believe I should be here.
We are dealing with areas in which there are thousands - maybe
hundreds of thousands - of applicable patents, trademarks and
copyrights. Nokia is suing Apple, Apple is suing HTC, and I've lost
track of the other high-profile lawsuits.
Opinions about "free software" and "software patents" aren't relevant
to me. What *is* relevant is whether MeeGo is viable as a business in
the *existing* intellectual property landscape. And "hope" is not a
strategy or a plan.
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky/
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdos
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