Hello, On Tue, 08 Mar 2011, ext David Woodhouse wrote:
> N900, using it against Google. Test it against real Exchange server. May be, you'll reconsider your opinion about maemo MfE solution quality. Regarding google - I confirm that it just does not work from end-user PoV. Google is marked as unsupported, however. > I know it's "unsupported", but that's a > chicken-and-egg situation. It's only "unsupported" because it's: > - Not working and not a high priority for Nokia. - It does not work due to the fact that (sometimes) google responds to our queries in the way which is not specified by the EAS protocol specs. - When Google was contacted, they rejected to answer any technical questions of ours. My personal (!) opinion on the matter is that they don't want to promote EAS, they want to promote the google data API. > - Not open source so it can't be debugged and fixed by those for whom > it *would* be a priority. This is a request to legal and business people. I totally agree with this point. > > This is EXACTLY how it is done in MeeGo/Maemo with the only difference - > > licensing part. > It's a sensible design. But closed source is a complete showstopper for > us. Could you or guys from Intel / Linux Foundation try to push the open-sourcing of MfE? To bring this question on board? To make any kind of noise about it? > That sounds interesting; I'd be very interested to see how much we can > re-use. I assume that you'll never get anywhere with your lawyers on the > topic of open sourcing it? If we don't have support from outside - for sure. They need to see the business needs. Practically, the demand. > But perhaps we could design the DBus API to > be similar to the one you're already using, and make the transition a > whole lot easier? Being able to use existing plugins to QMF and > libcamel, perhaps with some modification, would be *really* useful — is > there any better prospect of opening *those*? Interesting point. I'll bring it on board internally. Sounds reasonable. But after Feb 11 I personally started to be really pessimistic about open-sourcing of anything made by Nokia. > I'd love to work with your team on this. The same. -- WBR & WBW, Vitaly Repin, Productivity, Nokia-D _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
