Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-18 Thread Mikko Rauhala
to, 2008-09-18 kello 10:14 +1000, Lorn Potter kirjoitti: Mikko Rauhala wrote: Sure Nokia has some products which happen to be free software. That doesn't make them committed to free software, what with being eg. hostile to free formats, IANAL, but... (nor am I a spokesperson for Nokia)

Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-18 Thread Fredrik Wendt
First off, I'd just like to say that this is a great discussion (although it has very little to do about 3G support for Linux :) tor 2008-09-18 klockan 10:14 +1000 skrev Lorn Potter: Mikko Rauhala wrote: to, 2008-09-18 kello 05:45 +1000, Lorn Potter kirjoitti: Mikko Rauhala wrote:

Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
This recent thread of mine concerning relicensing of the AMR codec will be of certain interest to those interested in this thread: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/159060 -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-17 Thread Dale Maggee
Mikko Rauhala wrote: Personally I'll be loathe to buy Nokia products anyway, they're just way too inconsistent with their policies and have no commitment to free software whatsoever. But, if something good comes out of them, that's, well, good. Open source or not, you've gotta admit Nokia

Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-17 Thread Lorn Potter
Mikko Rauhala wrote: Bumped into the following: http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/09/17/dr-ari-jaaksi-on-maemo-5/ Relevantly Nokia is now Gold Sponsor of Linux Foundation, has contributed code today for 3G/HSPA cellular (data) connectivity for OMAP3 to Linux kernel I would interpret

Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 05:45 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: I would beg to differ. Trolltech is now part of Nokia, Qt and Qtopia certainly are open source and I can tell you for certain, we are committed to keeping them open source. I wonder what your plans are for the phone stack? I doubt that

Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-17 Thread Jim Morris
Mikko Rauhala wrote: Sure Nokia has some products which happen to be free software. That doesn't make them committed to free software, what with being eg. hostile to free formats, a strong opponent of independent software development in general through their patent lobby, very much clueless

Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 02:50:47PM -0700, Jim Morris wrote: To be honest even though I love open source/free software my experiences with OpenMoko Freerunner has soured me a little bit. I bought a phone that was supposed to be usable as a phone and as of today still is not usable as a

Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-17 Thread Lorn Potter
Marcus Bauer wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 05:45 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: I would beg to differ. Trolltech is now part of Nokia, Qt and Qtopia certainly are open source and I can tell you for certain, we are committed to keeping them open source. I wonder what your plans are for the phone