----- Robinson Tryon said----- > > Some people root their phone and install newer releases of > Android, for example the CyanogenMod "distro".
True, but I've avoided Android precisely because of the need to root the phone to do anything interesting... > > The owner of a device needs the power to install community-created > builds of the Meego OS. If the hardware cryptographically verifies the > OS, the owner needs access to the keys necessary to sign builds. > > All wishful thinking/joking aside, the driver situation will be the > same for Meego as it always has been for the Linux kernel. Well, the difference is that for a lot of cell phone like devices, it really isn't feasible to write an open source driver - there are often ndas needed to do anything useful.... > The Meego name is a special case. The Meego community could certainly > put conditions on the use of the Meego name and logo. One possibility > would be to reserve "official status" and use of the Meego name for > hardware that runs both vendor-supplied and community-created builds > of Meego. That would be a great step.... As you say, some vendors will still just use the source without the name, but if we play our cards right, the name MeeGo will be a big marketing tool for vendors. anything that requires vendors to do the "right thing" in order to use the name is good... > A reduced testing load would be very helpful, however just because > users _may_ upgrade to a newer version of Meego does not mean that > they will. The easier the mechanism to update the OS, the more likely > that users will actually perform the upgrade. True, but the difference between "60% of users can run my app" and "60% of users can run my app, and the rest can if they upgrade" Seems like something approaching 10% of iphone users have jailbroken their phones. If our upgrade process is easy and "approved", I'd think we can get a lot of users to move to the current MeeGo - especially if there are cool apps that need it... Warren
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