[maemo-developers] Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

[From: Robert Schuster]

Hi.

Marius Gedminas schrieb:
>> 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.
:)

>> 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.
Good catch!

While this is what I had in my mind it was not spoken out explicitly.
I'll add this in the final text.

>> 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.
My knowledge of maemo seems to be incomplete. Well, I thought all this
stuff belongs to Maemo already. Too bad it does not ...

Regards
Robert

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