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

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Abel<rabelg5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Kees
> Jongenburger<kees.jongenburger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There's absolutely no reason why not. Really, though, why don't we just open
>>> source it so we don't have to deal with ANY of this insanity?
>>
>> There are other project the 0xffff flasher out there and not enough people
>> tried and used it so what is the point?
>>
>
> Define "enough", please. I've certainly seen plenty of people getting
> good use out of it, so it certainly seems like "enough" to me. If
> you're expecting a mass migration from a functional, tested
> manufacturer-provided to an 3rd-party solution of unknown quality
> which provides little in the way of additional features, well, of
> course it's not going to be "enough".
What are you missing and why didn't *you* add it?
that is the question that you need to answer for yourself before
making such statements.


>
> Really, the right question to be asking is "Why not?". The
> justifications should be for keeping things closed, not making them
> open.
This is not the way we haven been working in the last year or so.
We can create fair request to open component and Nokia can take
them into account.

I was able to use 0xffff to render my device usable after flashing a
self modified
image so I am very happy the alternative exists. Being able to create
fiasco images
(using specs) can also be nice for Mer.


Greetings