>________________________________________ >From: Gil Quim (Nokia-D/Helsinki) >Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 9:57 AM >To: ext Adrian Yanes >Cc: Alhola Kate (Nokia-FNDC/Helsinki); meego-dev@meego.com >Subject: Open drivers (was Re: [MeeGo-dev] N900 Questions...) > >> The fact is that now Intel and Nokia are together. They can obtain >> these components, even without money. > >Do you mean that without money one can write the best drivers for latest >hardware? I'm not a big fan of closed binaries for hardware adaptation >but I understand that companies involved in this complex and highly >competitive activity want to pay salaries and bring benefits to >shareholders.
Quim, do you really think that OSS developers don't get paid on their job ? Least i got my salary from Nokia few days ago. Do you think that OSS companies doing work for MeeGo don't get paid as does closed source companies ? OpenGL drivers are owned by HW companbies that makes money by selling HW as does Nokia selling devices. They get revenue by HW sales, even drivers are closed, they are not charging about them. Only reason keeping them closed is that they are afraid that they may reveal some secret stuff from their HW. I think that is overprotecting. If some competitor really likes knows ecrets, they can reverse engineer the code. Kate _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
