On 22 March 2010 11:31, Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org> wrote: > Em Segunda-feira 22 Março 2010, às 10:21:34, Adrian Yanes escreveu: >> "Labelling MeeGo as Open Source is a promise that people don't have to >> put up with all this. I would even say it is the core differentiator of >> MeeGo against other mobile platforms based on Linux. We should take it >> seriously." >> >> If we speak a open source platform, and open development integration >> it requires commitment. >> >> With the non open source components. We are speaking about "another >> commercial project based in the open source concept, but with a big >> contradictions inside of it" > > Adrian > > Please understand the difference between the project and the companies/people > shipping products based on MeeGo. > > MeeGo will be Open Source, meaning all of its core will be open. > > Now, if someone wants to put MeeGo on a device that has some hardware that the > Open Source part doesn't support, what shall they do? Think not of Nokia or > Intel here, but a small device vendor, a start-up. Please answer.
If a small device vendor why they are going to choose a non open source component? The non open source components are the only one alternative? Non open source component implies in the most commons cases more implications and costs. So, if a small device vendor chooses a hardware with not open source components (even with the above implications), the problem is not in MeeGo is open source and doesn't support some privates components. The problem is in a vendor that chooses a non open source component to use with a open source platform and late he cries because is not supported. These kind of practices have been causing a lot of problems in the open source community. Would be very different if we live in a world where the only way is open source mixed with non open source. But the reality is other, in this world we have a complete open source solutions working, so is possible, it's works. And the worst thing is that still some people don't want to see it. The problem here is a problem of determination. If we continue allowing to mix components non open source in the open source platforms, never we are going to reach our goal. Cheers, Adrian. > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org > Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks > PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: > E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > MeeGo-dev@meego.com > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
