[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Dream Scenario (Re: Maemo roadmap, SDK improvements...)

[From: Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:33:17AM +0100, ext Hanno Zulla wrote:
> to me, the relationship between Maemo's FOSS parts and Maemo's closed
> parts are like the relationship between Ubuntu and its closed source
> driver packages (NVidia, WLAN firmware, etc.). I would be nicest if
> Maemo was distributed similar to that.

Not quite: you can run Ubuntu without any non-free components, but you
can't exactly boot the N800 without a bootloader.  For Maemo as a
platform, generally the split is similar to Ubuntu (i.e. non-free stuff
makes use of free stuff, and not in the other direction), but as you hit
the lower levels of the stack, it's not so clear-cut.

Also, the FIASCO generator would presumably have to be opened for this
to happen.

Cheers,
Daniel (who has no position on the matter, or influence, but is just
drive-by commenting)
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