Thread: Openness: Maemo vs Android
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Holyshit is offline Holyshit
2009-11-27 , 06:37
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Originally Posted by jjx View Post
It's your choice to work for those people.

For me, having an open source phone is a smart choice. It means I'll be able to make the phone do things which are useful to me.
it?
The N900 is not an "open source phone".
You probably mean the phone's operating system is open source.

Or even better: You want to mean that Maemo is Free Software. As " open source " doesn't necessarily mean you are free to redistribute any changes to it as you like. Seriously, you've been an OSS developer for 20 years: and make basic mistakes like this and :

"I'll be able to make the phone do things which are useful to me"

Even a Wintel is not open source, but still it's sort of an open development platform, as anyone can write and publish software for it and make the computer do what is useful to people.
Last edited by Holyshit; 2009-11-27 at 13:08.