[maemo-developers] Is there a roadmap for opening of binary blobs of N8x0 hardware ?

From: Igor Stoppa igor.stoppa at nokia.com
Date: Thu Sep 25 14:03:51 EEST 2008
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 13:56 +0300, ext David Weinehall wrote:
> On tor, 2008-09-25 at 10:28 +0530, ext Kevin Verma wrote:

> I cannot make predictions about other components, but for the battery
> software a well-educated guess is "Never", and the reasons are manifold:
> possible liability issues, patents, and the fact that it's software
> developed by another branch of Nokia rather than internally within
> Maemo.

In that sense it would be probably simpler to get rid entirely of it
than to open it. But still no predictions, sorry.

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Cheers, Igor

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Igor Stoppa
Maemo Software - Nokia Devices R&D - Helsinki

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