an open phone from nokia ?

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Umm, actually, pretty open..
Read this: http://flors.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/software-freedom-lovers-here-comes-maemo-5/

Also, within the last few days, they signed and sumbitted new drivers
to be included in the standard kernel.

The technology that they use is open and it's right there on your
linux desktop: Xorg, gstreamer, pulse audio, bluez, telepathy, they
use upstart instead of sysinit, matchbox window manager, X terminal,
busybox, GLX.

Will it be totally open? I don't think so because they have to support
their DRM'd music/video which you buy, and their DRM is from ..
Microsoft, but OTOH writing/porting an app to N900, is IMHO way easier
then to Android/WebOS/iPhone.

I'm excited about N900 because it's the closest thing in terms of
technology to my CentOS and Fedora machines I have here at home.

Watch this Flors guy's blog, he'll post some info next week specially
for Developers.

Thanks,
Hetz

2009/8/29 Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>:
> Erez D wrote:
>
> nokia is realeasing the N900 smartphone. which is using maemo (linux) as
> it's os.
>
> will this be a de-facto open phone, or could nokia keep it closed ?
>
> In all likelyhood, the system will be more or less open (i.e. - there will
> be some closed drivers), but the actual phone software will be pretty close.
>
> Then again, a port of OpenMoko (or, for that matter, android) to that phone
> is, likely, not far away.
>
> Shachar
>
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