Thread: OS2008 upgradable to Maemo 5? Fremantle for 770, N800, N810?
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2009-05-05 , 09:19
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Originally Posted by bhang View Post
when will these companies learn backwards compatibility, keeps customers happy, and dropping support pisses off the world and promotes piracy as people feel entitled to the software if the hardware they own is capable to run....
Backwards compatibility is nice, but sometimes you HAVE to break it because otherwise the required efforts are way too huge and make things unnecesarily complicated. Also see other software projects (KDE4? Windows Vista? Upcoming GTK3?).
I have no idea how you can come up with "piracy" here - 80% of the software is open-source anyway, and for the rest Nokia is willing to help the Mer project in getting things working.
And I don't remember Nokia having promised "Buy an N810 and get software updates for the next five years", so I wonder what such expectations are based on.

Originally Posted by bhang View Post
is this new release so different?
Yes, it is. People don't break API just because they are bored.
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