I should make it clear that my previous email was a guess based on my
experience with mobile platforms. I may well be surprised yet. Having
said that:
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Also, within the last few days, they signed and sumbitted new drivers
to be included in the standard kernel.
The question is whether all drivers running on the machine will be open?
Will I be able to compile, from scratch, my own kernel and have all
hardware working? I somehow doubt it, though I would love to be proven
wrong.
The technology that they use is open and it's right there on your
linux desktop: Xorg, gstreamer, pulse audio, bluez, telepathy, they
use upstart instead of sysinit, matchbox window manager, X terminal,
busybox, GLX.
Yes, that is definitely the case, but how about the core services of the
phone?
Will it be totally open? I don't think so because they have to support
their DRM'd music/video which you buy, and their DRM is from ..
I'm a bit confused about that. The guy on his blog says you get simple
and easy root. If I have root, what good is a DRM software, closed
source or otherwise? I can always just grab the data as it makes its way
to the audio driver (or connect as a debugger and grab the raw data from
the program's memory, or any number of other techniques).
writing/porting an app to N900, is IMHO way easier
then to Android/WebOS/iPhone.
I'm not sure about easier, but it is definitely running a bunch of
already existing applications, and has a huge selection of Linux/Unix
applications that have an easier port (assuming you don't consider the
adaptation of an application to the limitations of a phone the hardest
part, which I do happen to). From my limited experience with the Neo,
that is a major advantage (not to mention it will natively run all
applications written for the Neo, as they share 90% of the technology).
Shachar
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