[maemo-developers] Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

[From: Marius Gedminas]

Hi!

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 01:28:23PM +0200, Robert Schuster wrote:
> I finally subscribed to this list because I think the time is right.

Welcome!

> I
> attended LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin/Germany a few days ago. Quim Gil and
> other people from Nokia and the Maemo community were there. In the first
> Maemo talk Quim invited the community to speak out to Nokia (Btw: really
> Nokia or just the OSSO team?) and I want to participate therein.
> 
> If you attended the first talk I was the guy asking to raise your hand
> if you want to see the Nokia IT devices being freed of all proprietary
> software in one way (install a different OS) or another (make IT OS 100%
> free itself).

I was one of those who raised their hands.

> Without knowing anything from inside OSSO/Nokia in this regard I still
> hope that those reasons apply more or less to them because I want to
> base this year's "Campaign for Software Freedom on Nokia IT devices
> (tm)"[2] on them. ;)
> 
> What the campaign is hoping to achieve is the following:
> 
> 1) Users should be able to install any compatible OSes on their Nokia IT
> devices they wish like one can do on their desktop computers.

Please add "and have all the hardware working properly", because you can
already install Debian or Poky on a Nokia IT.

> 2) It should be possible to port and put Maemo on other non-Nokia
> devices like it is possible to e.g. port Fedora to any machine.

If I'm not confused about the terms, Maemo already consists of only the
open-source parts.  The software that comes on a Nokia IT is called the
"Internet Tablet Operating System", and it is based on Maemo with a lot
of non-free parts added at various levels of the software stack.

Perhaps what you want is to make Maemo complete -- by adding the missing
closed parts such as the virtual keyboard/handwriting input plugins,
status bar applets, etc.

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
We can tell Nokia what we want.  We can't tell Nokia what to do.  If a
comparable device with a more open platform appears, I will happily
switch, just like I switched from the closed Palm to the half-open Nokia
Internet Tablet.
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