Wichmann, Mats D schrieb: > [email protected] wrote: >> For this reason a social contract could help us, establishing a >> default requirements if you want to integrate a component/driver in the >> MeeGo project. >> >> Maybe the social contract sounds very free-software "fanatic" for a >> company, but is one of the best warranties to offer a complete open >> source project. >> >> Besides, it would be a signal of commitment with the community, and it >> will encourage participation in the development. > > My completely personal, completely unofficial reaction is > that this would have a LOT of problems on the Tivoization > front, as it seems to me everybody below the netbook and > possible tablet type device is interested in some level of > locking down their image... Don't know if it looks that > way to the rest of you or I'm just being too pessimistic?
A vendor lock is what every business wants to achieve. The "wet dream" of the suit and tie people - customers being forced to come back and spend their money with you and you alone. But those times are over. There is intrinsic *need* for it - there never was. They ended on the PC first and then went from PC to Server to mainframe to mobile devices and finally even mobile phones where one thought until recently that operators would force anything close. But they loosing power. A locked down system means that you will become the only one maintaining it. Being the only one mean that you have to implement everything on your own. The systems become more and more complex and feature rich so it gets more and more impossible to try and do it 100% on your own. And this is where open source comes into play. You can get tons of complex features free without your own development effort. This is what makes it so appealing. And this is why it succeeds. In some minds there is still this vendor lock idea existing. But it is changing, it just needs time. Also newer developments in hardware will make also embedded hardware easier to access and less intensive to port new software onto it. This will speed up Linux ports and spread it even further... I am convinced, openness will succeed - also in the business minds. It just takes time. Cheers nils -- kernel concepts GbR Tel: +49-271-771091-12 Sieghuetter Hauptweg 48 Fax: +49-271-771091-19 D-57072 Siegen Mob: +49-176-21024535 http://www.kernelconcepts.de _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
