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Originally Posted by allnameswereout
It's noted.
Keep your eagle eyes on development of Mer for N900...
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Originally Posted by ossipena
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i don't like using this acronym, but LOL! in todays world your utopia is pretty much impossible.
and nokia does business, not charity. creating fully open source media player for maemo would be really huge donation (of money & resources) to every manufacturer using maemo in their devices. plain economics and pure competition. Usain Bolt doesn't do cartwheels during 100m sprint, does he?
No need to create a media player from A to Z: if it is a FOSS, Nokia may use the source code to other FOSS.
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Originally Posted by ragnar
And it's not only better hardware, but also 'worse'.
Then differentiating with hardware becomes very very hard. The Nokia black box might have better materials and might be one millimeter thinner, but our worthy competitors can do something nearly identical. OEM manufacturers already can do hardware that is virtually identical to brand name hardware.
A buzz arises out of maemo5, and you get hardware coming out with a similar sized screen with half the resolution, a smaller processor, no FM, a mediochre camera, as someone making a '3g' mobile in china has stuck maemo5 on it instead of their normal OS.
But at half the price.
Suddenly many potential users start wondering if they can actually see the difference between 320dpi and 160dpi, and if they in fact need the shiny, if they can run all the apps that run on the 'proper' version.
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Originally Posted by korbé
apt-get source ubuntuone-client
Canonical make proprietary software:
- UbuntuOne (sever side).
- Landscape.
- Launchpad is remained longtime proprietary.
That server for Landscape and/or Ubuntuone are not open source means nothing. When I surf WWW I get HTML spewed by closed source PHP code. Doesn't mean my OS is suddenly running closed source software. I mean... do you use MSN? MSN server software is closed source. Does that make your Debian running only free software and a MSN client suddenly running closed source or proprietary software? No way. It does use a reverse engineered proprietary protocol, and the server software is indeed proprietary. But that doesn't make you run proprietary software.
So actually... your examples suck...
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Originally Posted by ossipena
Barring the ideologic reasoning is there any other reason why media player open source is in advantage of Maemo users?
and nokia does business, not charity. creating fully open source media player for maemo would be really huge donation (of money & resources) to every manufacturer using maemo in their devices.
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Being able to use codecs that nokia cannot legally distribute.
I have questions if this is a widespread draw though.
I have questions if this is a widespread draw though.
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Originally Posted by SpeedEvil
Wouldn't this be a thing for the backend that it uses? I believe that (MAFW) is open source.
Being able to use codecs that nokia cannot legally distribute.
I have questions if this is a widespread draw though.
Tuomas Kulve did a good job with this (adding ogg-support to Diablo's media player) and he seems to have done it again.
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout
Yes, 'cause I'll want to change it. I don't want to brainstorm, I just want to change it.
Barring the ideologic reasoning is there any other reason why media player open source is in advantage of Maemo users?
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Originally Posted by korbé
Not worth the financial investment and years of development, just to give away the software for other companies to use it from the day of the release.
@qgil: A businessplan?
- Nokia creates innovative features with hardware that copyists Chinese fail to imitate before Nokia did so the following model.
- Nokia make Maemo 100% FOSS than other manufacturer can use and evolve it. Plus there will be a contributor to different horizon for Maemo, better it will be
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and nokia does business, not charity. creating fully open source media player for maemo would be really huge donation (of money & resources) to every manufacturer using maemo in their devices. plain economics and pure competition. Usain Bolt doesn't do cartwheels during 100m sprint, does he?