On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:11:19AM -0600, Denis Dimick wrote: > Ryan, > > First off I'd like to thank you and the other members of the Maemo community > council for devoting time to Maemo, we all are busy in this day and time, > and I'm grateful there are people willing to stand up and lead this > community. > > Last night I was thinking about the issue of Nokia dropping support for > various hardware platforms, I'm speaking of in the future also, and I > started to think about the early days of Linux 15 years ago. There was not > any company that was willing to stand up and embrace Linux, come out with > ANY hardware support and most of the communities time was spend trying to > reverse engineer drivers. Now today we have a number of vendors that support > Linux and ship drivers, most users can seamlessly install Linux and we have > Nokia that has embraced Linux, and given us these wonderful toys, tools, > whatever you want to call them. > > So the worst case here; Nokia drops out of the Linux market, or reduces > their support for older hardware platforms. > > Since the software is open source, except for the close-source binary-blob drivers that drive the proprietary chips. -- hendrik > the hardware seems to be well documented, > the community knows how to write applications, hack the core O/S or UI, we > just end up going back in time a few years to the days where we had to patch > source ourselves, and chose what applications we want to install; until > someone re-writes the install process and we get back to a fully automated > install. > > All we lose is a bit of time, we don't lose the hardware. > > Just my thoughts, > > Denis > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Oct 29, 2008, at 4:51 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > > > > > About the rest of the thread, how useful is it to discuss before Nokia > > > publishes the maemo 5 API and announces a product shipping it? Enjoy > > > your current devices! Fremantle is not even in alpha. The N810 WiMAX > > > edition just started the sales few days ago (running the very same > > > software inside). No matter what happens with Fremantle the N800/N810 > > > users are going to benefit from this. > > > > > > Well, when Nokia is done with Diablo to the point that they wont even > > apply a simple patch like this[1], then I'd say future plans are > > pretty important. > > > > > > [1]https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3470 > > > > -- > > Ryan Abel > > Maemo Community Council chair > > > > _______________________________________________ > > maemo-users mailing list > > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------- > sik vis paw kem, para bellum > -------------------------------------- > oderint dum metuant > -------------------------------------- > "Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't > be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our > women and breed a hardier race!" -LT. GEN. LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER, USMC > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
