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#35
Originally Posted by Stskeeps View Post
No, that isn't what happened. It was hybris on our side and Nokia had been very cooperative in terms of getting us access to needed binaries, but we insisted on a open platform instead of taking a shortcut.
Notice I said open needed components, not agree to redistribute binaries. According to this page

http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_developme...losed_packages

nothing was opened in 2009.

You think it was hubris to ask Nokia to help in open source software development related to Maemo?
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