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Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter)Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter)Posted Nov 4, 2009 19:43 UTC (Wed) by divide_by_zero (guest, #60957)In reply to: Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter) by ssam Parent article: Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter)
If you had hopes with Android, you might like to try Maemo also...
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Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter) Posted Nov 4, 2009 20:18 UTC (Wed) by macson_g (subscriber, #12717) [Link]
Actually you might have a point here. Nokia is embracing The Openness (TM) in incredible speed. They seemed to cure themselves from heavy NIH, they are using large amounts of pre-existing Free software in newest Maemo versions, they are opening they development process. They event re-implementing connectivity stack as Free software (oFono)
Who would think few years ago that we will see Nokia and Google competing on Linux-based OSes, Nokia being the one more open?
Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter) Posted Nov 5, 2009 13:05 UTC (Thu) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469) [Link]
I agree. Maemo is much more in line with what typical linux desktop systems use (X11, GTK, in the future Qt, glibc, gstreamer, dbus, ...). This makes Maemo a dozen times more attractive for somebody who's actively looking for a Linux product than Android.
However, it's also far from being perfect. There are still a fair number of proprietary components left that need to be either opened up or proper replacements developed by the community.
In any case, I'm looking forward to the N900.
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