On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Carsten Munk <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Carsten!
thanks to point all that periodically ;)
[...]
>"MeeGo software is developed and designed in a collaborative effort by
>an open community of professionals and volunteers"
>"The governance model is based on meritocracy and the best practices
>and values of the Open Source culture."
>"Yet MeeGo operations are expected and designed to be completely
>transparent - R&D in the public internet! "
It may by nice to clarify that definitively, just some examples:
* parts of sdk not running on ati/nvidia boards is community driven?
* not official support of meego on some hardware is community driven?
* "basic" software components on handhelds devices (gui telephony,
connectivity, audio routing, 3d etc.) will be part of meego and
opened?
* why the n900 ks file contains the word "closed"? AFAIK that image
does not support wifi and telephony and many other things, I'm curious
to know what dramatic parts are closed on a basic "opensource"
project.
Sorry if some questions seem hurting or stupid, but to the casual
reader it seems meego is *actually* internally driven, and is going
only to be a *base* OS strongly adapted to vendors needs to put their
closed components and providing unified api for developing partner
companies with the objective to sell more hardware and not an "open
revolution" as guessed from the meego faq.
[...]
> * Would a random skilled contributor from the Internet be able to
> participate and contribute to this activity?
> * Would a random skilled contributor from the Internet be able to show
> his merits and eventually join my team?
> * Would a random skilled contributor from the Internet be able to
> follow and read details about most of the work being done in this
> team?
Would a random contributor be able to get answers to simple questions?
Many time you have "please respect peoples working under NDA" or in
the worst case the silence.
[...]
> Openness aids collaboration and behind the doors work hinders
> collaboration, also between Nokia and Intel, or between the companies
> involved or committed to MeeGo, or between company and private person
An emotional comment here, sometimes that does not happen between
Nokia and Intel too, or at least it seems so reading on some meego
related nokia/intel projects mailing lists.
> - and we need all the skilled hands we can get to get this project to
> be strong and to get things implemented.
As a random ml reader, I'm very curious to know how much openness may
be compatible with profit companies and business models.
I apologize if I'm totally confused! and where my words does not have
sense please point me in the right direction (if that is not under
NDA) ;)
Regards
Niko
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