Hi again, ext Luca Olivetti wrote: > Right, let's say that nokia, as a VIP customer of TI, is in a better > position to explain the importance of disclosing specs (so that free > drivers can be produced by the community) than a lone hacker in a > basement (to whom TI doesn't even sell directly its wares). You keep pointing VIP customers and that's fine. And you keep pointing to this lone developer. Is the reality like this, though? Look at the context in the free software community. Look at the history around the Linux OS. > Obviously only if nokia does get it itself. Get what? What I'm trying to say is that the open source community also needs to get that hardware vendors won't change their business models unless they have good (business) reasons to do so. Think that Nokia is a software developer as well. We do see the benefits of open source software and public hardware documentation for our own development - and for you. Look, the easiest it to see this situation as a fairy tale of good and bad knights with opposite interests. The reality is different, more mixed and complex. Hardware vendors have to get it, but the community has also to learn some things in order to come up together with a brighter future. Let's learn more and better about each other. > I understand they fear disclosing the specs would make copying their > wares easier, but other manufacturers don't seem to have a problem with > that. Different companies have different objectives, contexts, strategies... What is good for A maybe is not automatically good for B. Look at the business models and contexts of those doing the moves you like and help providing arguments and business reasons to those still not doing those moves you like. Quim _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
