[maemo-developers] Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

[From: Jarmo.Tikka at nokia.com]

Hi, 

Some comments about opnesourcing flasher code below. 

BTW I think flasher is the only closed source tool we have in maemo development environment. Or at least I do not know any other binary only tool :).

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ext Hubert Figuiere [mailto:hub at figuiere.net] 
>Sent: 01 July, 2009 20:06
>Subject: Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and 
>Diablo released
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>On 06/30/2009 08:41 AM, Jarmo.Tikka at nokia.com wrote:
>> The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has 
>released installation packages for Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta 
>for Linuxes, Mac OS X and Windows. Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool 
>supports flashing of N8x0 Diablo devices and coming Fremantle devices.
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>Any plan to release the source code of the Flasher?

Sorry no plans for that. I think the main reason being that we use some 3rd party interfaces that cannot be published and because of that propably also some source code.

This is also business related issue as being able to freely update maintenance releases is of course the standard way of working but in commercial world being able to flash freely also new platform release to old hw (as we have provided in many cases) is not the standard way how or competitors work mainly befouse it is a lot of work to support old hw.

Cheers,
//Jarmo

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