On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:55 AM, <kate.alh...@nokia.com> <kate.alh...@nokia.com> wrote:
>> ________________________________________ >> 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 > ? Right on Kate. A quick scan of the kernel will show contributions from a lot of companies - even Microsoft has committed GPL code! And I'm certain whoever wrote that code got a paycheck! Free Software is not a hobby. > > 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. Well said. Closed source is just a vestige of an old industrial system that moved at a snail's pace. Nowadays, you get a patent and by the time the ink is dry on the contract, someone has invented something cooler. > If some competitor really likes > knows ecrets, they can reverse engineer the code. Which they do anyway! And they do it badly! But its cheaper so they think that competing at a lower price point will bring them customers and they are disappointed when no one buys their crappy hardware. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
