Thanks for the clarification. Still seems a huge pity.
Honestly, I don't understand what you are complaining about. Nokia funds maemo.org, so if they advise us not to do something for legal reasons we had better do it. Against Nokia's advice, some people have hosted it in their personal repositories. It is available in some form, and you could recompile a more capable version yourself if you so choose.
Thanks for the clarification. Still seems a huge pity.
Sounds like there is plenty of room for someone else to pick this up and take it forward. Chromium is still open source and there's, presumably, still the offer from the Council to put the necessary parties in touch.
As long as you don't require flash the version that is out there (qole.org) works fine. Then again so does Firefox and Opera. We have many choices. I still love MicroB. Other than a poor ability to reflow text MicroB beats all IMHO.
Sounds like there is plenty of room for someone else to pick this up and take it forward. Chromium is still open source and there's, presumably, still the offer from the Council to put the necessary parties in touch.
Of course if someone wants to do it they can.
IIRC FreeBSD removed Chromium when this same patent lawsuit came around, their solution was to strip any patented (or disputed) parts out of the code and then distribute it that way. I think that was courgette and some h.264 stuff. So we might be able to look at their diff to get a head start on what to remove from our own version.
Honestly, I don't understand what you are complaining about. Nokia funds maemo.org, so if they advise us not to do something for legal reasons we had better do it. Against Nokia's advice, some people have hosted it in their personal repositories. It is available in some form, and you could recompile a more capable version yourself if you so choose.
What would be better in your opinion?
Instead of engaging in discussion, you seem to want to attack. Please leave your hostility at the door. I was not complaining. I appreciate that you do not understand. I explained my reasons quite clearly. And the community has explained its reasons quite clearly.
I had not appreciated that the legal advice was from Nokia. I do not want to go to add an external repository. My reasons for that are to do with integrity and security of my device. Not rocket science, is it?
Oh yes, I remember - the uncertain future, (including Nokia funding). Perhaps cutting the purse strings would be what is needed to release the potential locked up in this device.
Instead of engaging in discussion, you seem to want to attack. Please leave your hostility at the door. I was not complaining. I appreciate that you do not understand. I explained my reasons quite clearly. And the community has explained its reasons quite clearly.
I had not appreciated that the legal advice was from Nokia. I do not want to go to add an external repository. My reasons for that are to do with integrity and security of my device. Not rocket science, is it?
