power management [LWN.net]

power management

Posted Apr 12, 2007 17:12 UTC (Thu) by mrfredsmoothie (subscriber, #3100)
In reply to: power management by nhippi
Parent article: Two examples of abandoned hardware

Once you have a otherwise free system, you could ask for a static bme binary. That would be a request much harder to to argue as not reasonable, than the "plz provide commercial quality images for old hardware forever" request.

Yeah, especially considering the device wasn't "commercial quality" for at least months after it was released.

Please. This "commercial quality" thing is a total canard. There are quite a number of flagship FOSS projects producing software of a quality no commercial product can match, and you well know it, or you wouldn't even be reading this site.

The fact is, given enough information -- or lacking that, time and people who live in jurisdictions where EULA restrictions against reverse engineering aren't enforceable -- the community can, and probably will produce images for the N770 of a higher quality than that which shipped on the device when it first became available. Nokia could certainly help with that, but it seems their policy is to be officially unhelpful and maybe turning a blind eye to occasional, sufficiently cryptic attempts by some of their employees to offer bits of help.

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