On 1/11/07, Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why shouldn't nokia then do like Apple, create a propiertary platform and make it work exactly like people want it to, right out of the box?
Well, that's not what they did.
This theme seems to be recurring here. "Nokia isn't open/free enough, so I'll rather choose a more propiertary PRODUCT".
Wrong. _I_ will not choose a more proprietary product. I have no plans whatsoever to purchase an iPhone. I, a Free Software proponent and developer, did however respond to an ad from Nokia about their upcoming, open, linux-based handheld device and was very surprised to learn that, for example, power management (pretty basic component on a batter-powered handheld) relied on proprietary software. It's not such a big loss for me because I only spent $99. It's a little bit more of a big deal for users now, though, because they bought a device for more like $450 which now looks like it will be largely abandoned by the company that released it w/ much fanfare, even though they'd only have to open it up the rest of the way for the community to continue to produce _full_ FIASCO images which any user could just install and use, out of the box, just like Apple's device.
There is far more than enough information and code to create your own, 100% Free rootfilesystem.
But not power management.
Specifics please? What code/documentation are you missing and what would you create with them? And how are going to do the same things with iPhone?
Code for the DSME so we can build custom firmware images where the power mangement works. Code for (insert proprietary component here) so we can experiment, and as a community, release a software image which does _anything_ we can collectively imagine, to the device's _full_ potential. Dave _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
