On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:18:35PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: > Well, the Neo has proprietary software "on it" if you count the internal > modem. I'm not sure how interesting a list that would be, particularly > if you count firmware - the number of devices would basically be zero. > > There is always some aspect of a device which is proprietary.
As far as I could understand from the Neo's information, it's all Free Software except some components put in ROM (well, maybe it's a REPROM) like the GSM and GPS components, allowing the system to operate without BLOBs. This isn't much different from a computer BIOS, and while it's a goal to be able to replace them, they are still very immature and unless you are even more extremely careful, you won't even be able to buy a motherboard that can have it's BIOS replaced by something like OpenBIOS. I know I don't have any such device yet, sadly. However, after the huge disappointment that the N770 and N800 Nokia models are, the Neo is quite a breath of fresh air! Rui -- Or not. Today is Setting Orange, the 61st day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
