> ----- Original message ----- 
> From: "Jean-Christian de Rivaz‎" <[email protected]>
> To: "Development for the MeeGo Project (discussion list)‎" 
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] non SSSE3 MeeGo
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:37:04 +0200
> 
> 
>Foster, Dawn M a écrit :
> > On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:42 AM, David Greaves wrote:
> > This is the way open source projects are supposed to work. The 
> > people who start the project pick a manageable set of hardware to 
> > get us started just like when Linus only supported 386 with AT 
> > drives in the first version of the Linux kernel because that's what 
> > he was using at the time[1]. [1] 
> > http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html
> 
> Sorry, but this argument is completely wrong: At the time Linus 
> started Linux, porting to other hardware was a hug task that involved 
> years of work. Today, every large distribution routinely build 
> generic i686 build. Why not Meego ?
> 
> What really block you to do things that all others do easily for 
> years ? Just Start a OBS target with generic compiler flags, end of 
> the story.
> 

Forgive my ignorance if I'm off base, but isn't this a policy topic for the 
Linux Foundation to address?  Should Ibrahim make a statement?

Randy

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