Thread: N8x0 Doomsday repositories
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2012-10-05 , 11:24
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
What resale value? After all, they are 5-6 year-old devices and you can still find unused ones for sale if you look a bit.
You seem to be making opposing points within the same sentence. What are you saying?

Originally Posted by lma View Post
Sure, Android is more open source than Maemo and Google have not set their platform on fire. This isn't the thread to talk about that though ;-)
Maybe... Maybe... But this IS a "doomsday" thread, right? It is still relevant point to make that Nokia really has wretchedly crippled and hobbled this "based on open-source" platform and turned it into a horrible legal exercise now. The legal permission to at LEAST distribute closed-source freely may ultimately be the only fix until someone comes along to write an altogether replacement operating system--which we know is unlikely given previous attempts and the closed architecture. It almost begs the question of whether it's even worth it. What a mess.
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