Zaurus and OPIE redux.

Qole's post reminds me of the open Zaurus dayd, the initial euphotlria of an open build for the Zaurus but eventual slow death.

Without Nokia's support, th OS might still live (though not withiut the closed bits), but the hardware will die and eventually the community will die.

But i have hope for Linux in the pocket device. When the Zaurus died (one of the firt successful linux pdas), the despondency was same but the Linux momentum had started and then came nokia with Maemo.

Am sure after Nokia someone will still carry the handheld linux torch forward in some way. just maybe not as maemo/meego.