[maemo-developers] Maemo platform for other manufactures and vertical market?

[From: Kamen Bundev]

Moblin and Ubuntu platforms are based on GTK+ and the Maemo Hildon
extensions, so at least the interfaces should be compatible.

As for distribution - you can't build fully open maemo based distribution
for the N8x0 hardware (yet, though Mer tries), since part of its drivers are
closed or controlled by closed userspace daemons, but most other parts are
open so its probably possible for other hardware.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Zhang Chi <zchi at trolltech.com> wrote:

> Hi,  everybody
>
> Sorry to put the topic here, I know this is a Dev focus mail list but I can
> not find any other mail list for this topic
>
> If you took a look at Mobile Internet Device market, for the software
> platform players, maemo, mobilin, unbuntu and probably android are there,
> but looks like only Nokia tablet device is maemo based.
>
> So my question is "Possible for other company to utilize maemo platform to
> build their own device?"
>
> Technical perspective, I saw from some blogs saying that you can not get
> 100% necessary components from maemo.org. Does that mean definitely you
> can
> not build a maemo device without special support from Nokia?
>
> BR,
> Chi Zhang
>
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