[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Please release media player's source, Nokia!

[From: Clemens Eisserer]

Hi there,

Since I received my Nokia770 I wonder why there is no ogg vorbis
support nore an equilizer available for the 770.
Solutions have been created which implement a media-player completly
with interface and everything from scratch and I really think about
helping the oggplay-project (as far as they would accept my patches)
to include an equilizer and support for mp3-playback and streamed
ogg-files.
On the other side I really wonder wether its worth to spend time
working on this, its at least my hope that the 2006' software eddition
will support ogg and will be shipped with an equilizer included
anyway, both using the DSP instead of heating the scalar-core.

So why is so much of the sofware shipped with the Nokia770 not open? I
doubt that there are a lot of secrets in code, nore do I think the
code is that unique nore expensive.
If nokia would release the code the community could enhance it and
Nokia could happily use the code, maybe porting it to the DSP.
This way Nokia has to pay devs for creating/enhancing the audio-player
(although money would be maybe spent better tuning GTK) whereas
community develops an audio player that will maybe obsoleted by
nokia's own development.

lg Clemens