Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

You may well be very right there because all i have seen on this thread is a load of abuse and not one decent answer to the Maemo problems and what could be the way forward, it all gets eaten up by sarcasm and abuse.

How do we get Nokia to release the closed source they are holding on to? what is the best way forward to do this?.

Can we have the FULL os converted to source? including drivers.

Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

I'm really hoping this is not the case!

Some familiar names have definately left the forum but hopefully we might get some "fresh blood".

Considering the n900 has dropped in price and some people here have sold theirs.
E.g:
"N900 does not accurately predict lottery number"
"N900 stops working when submerged under water" or
"It's useless as a house brick"

We may get new members who can contribute back into the community.

Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

Isn't there a project to get the drivers open-sourced in Meego?

If that is the case and is successful then the drivers can make their way to maemo.

Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

AHA i dont know the drivers were going to be given out for the N900 for the Meego project but hell i would love you to find out a bit more regarding this !.

Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

How vein are you? You'd love "him" to find out more about it for you?

What drivers do you want opened abill_uk? There's a request queue for opening Maemo components. Also, the drivers for MeeGo will be just as closed as the ones for Maemo, the difference is they will hopefully continually get updated due to an autobuilder.

Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

Because he knows something i dont ! less the sarcasm ok.

A request que is not the answer right now is it !.

Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

Just for my two-cents, I don't understand all this talk about a "dead OS". Exactly how long do you intend to hold onto your N900? I've had mine since December 09 and have found it to be the best "phone" I've ever owned. I intend to keep it for another year by which time I'll buy another phone which will hopefully be as good as or better than the N900, be it Meego, Android or whatever OS it happens to come with. It seems to me that because the N900 is so open it is the most 'alive' phone on the market today. The amount of customization I have on my N900 puts Android and iPhone OS to shame. I wouldn't care if Nokia never released another Maemo update ever again. They went out on a limb and produced a totally open handset that they knew wouldn't be for the mainstream market and the community has picked it up from there and made it a fantastic handset that I wouldn't change if you paid me. I love Maemo, and as long as it's running on my N900 and I wake up in the morning and see the little 'update available' icon flashing in the status bar it's alive and kicking.

Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

It is pretty much your only answer for that problem. He told you a vague recollection of MeeGo having the same driver components. If he knew more I'm sure he'd have said. I don't see why that stops you from getting off your *** and doing some reading ..

Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

If you think about this , the closed source drivers have to be in the vanilla updates but how do we de-encrypt?.

Re: what is this community prepared to do for us regarding the N900?
 

I may have some problems with the system, sometimes, but on my N900 maemo is far from dead. I can hear it's pulsing heartbeat, and just yesterday some good person from this forum offered me help, and it made my machine whisper countless "thank you's". Just because a kid is leaving it's parents' house and no longer keeps in touch doesn't mean the kid is dead. My kid plans to stay alive for as long as possible and it will run it's parents software, regardless of whether the parents still contribute to it or not.

I haven't read the policy as I think I behave well enough to know what is done and what not. But like I said yesterday; If you're not afraid to open your mouth and take some people on, don't be surprised when you get that same thing back. Complaining about that, and especially complaining about that in PM's to mods really, really hurts your credibility. I have been a mod for a popular forum for a couple of years. Never really liked that behaviour...

I've read quite a few comments already from people willing to take their chances. Why won't you let them? Personally I am not interested but if this were an issue for me, I certainly would dislike the sausage you're holding up to them only to never get them a bite of it.

Why is that not mutual? Reciprocity is a great thing. Really!

The way things stand now, and Texrat was right about me being a newbee on this forum, your reputation could really be enhanced by sharing the knowledge you claim to have. Also, it is very, very much in the line of the open source community. I, for one, do not claim extensive knowledge of it all, but everything I have learned about computers and programming, I learned because people were willing to put up with my lack of knowledge and share theirs.