Nokia N900

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

I don't care if that code breaks the GPL or not, what I care is that
is 2% too much proprietary software because it's 2% VERY IMPORTANT
software.

If it were applications... you can live without them. Important drivers
you can't.

This is just to show the fallacy value of "it only 2%". Not all
parts are of equal worth.

Remove those 2% right now and then come back with the experience results.

Rui

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:52:20AM +0800, yangm wrote:
> As I known about N810, 98% code is open.
> some driver (such as wifi driver), some core component (such as
> connectivityManager) are private code.
> 
> It's a really difficault work to write private code without break GPL.
> 
> 2009/9/1 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org>
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:00:32PM +0200, Nicola Mfb wrote:
> > > Just found the older n800 is supported by OE and mamona runs on it,
> > > but I did never care about that and google does not help very much in
> > > understanding how much the device is "open".
> >
> > Or how much it is not open (a lot WRT drivers):
> >
> > http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages