Em Segunda-feira 22 Março 2010, às 14:53:05, Gary Tougas escreveu: > MeeGo is bigger than just Nokia and Intel, hopefully there will be many > more companies developing hardware to run on MeeGo. It is also much > bigger than cell phones, ARM, X86, etc. Reading through the many comments > it seems a choice is needed. Either MeeGo can accept that hardware > vendors will from time to time adopt hardware with closed drivers in order > to achieve best in class performance, or they could dictate that only > chips or subsystems with open source drivers be used and accept the > compromises in features and performance that implies. Personally I would > hope for the former.
Here's a good point: if a new HW vendor comes and wants MeeGo to support their
platform, be it a full HW package like the OMAP3 or a just a video card (or
something else), MeeGo will only accept their contribution if it's Open
Source.
If they don't want to make it Open Source, MeeGo will not support their
platform out of the box. For someone to use their HW, there will be work
needed in the adaptation layer. Is there anyone who's willing to pay for that
work?
It's a typical case of Strategy classes: who has the upper hand?
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