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2013-05-22 , 23:59
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#470
Originally Posted by balisingh View Post
Boy its been a while, but why dont they just make the hardware and license Harmattan from Nokia?

All Harmattan needed was new hardware.
Harmattan was essentially maemo with a bunch of MeeGo API's bolted on to satisfy the technical requirements to make it MeeGo "compliant" and thus allow Nokia to refer to it as MeeGo.

as a bridging OS, it was still held back by the closed source binary blobs that were present in it's predecessors (along with the MeeGo DE/CE builds) and the non upstream supporting forks of key components.

Even with the massive bugfixing extravaganza that the last PR brought, there are still a lot of issues that weren't fixed.

Mer has worked to resolve a lot of the inherent OS (middleware) issues that Harmattan had.
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