[maemo-developers] Curious: Maemo devices other than Nokia?

[From: Quim Gil]

Hi,

ext Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
> 
> Exactly, Ross! I usually visualize relationship between different bits
> using the following picture (please use a fixed width font):
> 
>   +--------------+----------------+------+
>   |              | Maemo SDK      |      |
>   +--------------+----+----+------+------+
>   |API           |Open|Open| Open |Closed|
>   +--------------+----+----+------+------+
>   |Implementation|Open|Open|Closed|Closed|
>   +--------------+----+----+------+------+
>   |                   |  IT OS 200X      |
>   +-------------------+------------------+
> 
> The part that is covered by "Maemo" (and Maemo SDK) is not enough to
> produce a somewhat reasonable system, which:
>  1) is bootable
>  2) has support for all hardware
>  3) has a comparable to IT OS 2008 set of applications
> 
> The really "challenging" areas are 2) and 3).  I believe certain work to
> make sure that 1) does not have any challenges is planned, but probably
> it's up to Quim to confirm. :)

There has been some internal work, yes, done in the context of those
potential plans for having maemo published as a linux distro. However,
since the response has been between mild and mixed now we are not moving
much this option.

Also, http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona/ came to the game and, well,
that project is about doing some of the stuff people in this thread is
willing to have.

You know Nokia's core mission is to develop products that sell and are
profitable. Open source is an important element used in the tablets to
achieve that, but for Nokia it's not an objective in itself. If you look
at the size of the binaries, most of the maemo platform is open source,
but there are components that are closed - for one or another reason.
>From a Nokia point of view there must be reasons for each case to move
from closed to open, be it a browser, an email client or an input method
framework.

Actually this is the reason why
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584 is not progressing much. It
would be more effective to select one component and say: opening this
component would be useful because of A, B, C. This is what happened to
the input method framework, and Nokia opened it.

Quim