You can remove the applications on the device and replace them with open source alternatives (e.g. Notes with Leafpad).
Didn't know that was easily possible.
Or were you expecting to be able to legally take the whole Nokia product SW and commission some Chinese HW manafacturer to make cheap rip-offs maybe...? :-)
Not that funny. While I have personally neither interest or capital for doing a clone, having a truly open platform ultimately includes the possibility of clones.
IMHO the open part is more interesting than the proprietary one. :-)
By definition ...I had expected only the necessary parts (some codecs, maybe BT & WiFi drivers) to be proprietary.
What I intended to get across, is that nobody's yet provided that open and convenient development platform for embedded Linux with a full package managment system.
No, and neither has Nokia yet. The thing has got loads of potential, but as you say
it will take time.
Embedded Linux is not easy, it's flexible and free.
True. Which is why I was wondering about alterative paths ( e. g. a system built upon one main interpreted language + JIT compiler ) because I'm not so sure "easy" porting of applications is worth more than easy developent in general. Now if I could build packages from most every source deb that compiles in Debian arm ... mmm :) C. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
