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Originally Posted by MINKIN2 View Post
I guess my fear would be that if maemo.org agreed to back the vivaldi (or similar machine), then what would happen if they decided to close shop in 6months time?
Not much of a problem, as their work is 100% FOSS (everyone can buy device from somewhere else and put their stack on it, *legally*), so anyone else - including us - may open "shop" as soon as they close it, without much hassle. which we can't say about Nokia binary blobs, unfortunately :/ Try now getting source code of something belonging 100% to Nokia and being no use to them - now or in future - and you'll get what I mean. They'll rather take it to the grave with them, than release for any use.

But we don't want to start another *this* discussion here, do we? In some matters, big companies are - and probably must - be unimaginably dumb, despite having smart employees. Paradox, eh?

/Estel
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