On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 19:55 +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > Some of the applications on the 770 are not open for various reasons > > There were a few examples of stuff that might understandably be closed > in my last post, feel free to add Opera to that, even Flash if you > like (as old as the supplied version is, one of the FOSS re-writes > might give it a run for its money, though ^^)
I seriously doubt that a Free Flash will match the official Flash for some time, but that is another story. The blog for the Linux port of Flash is very interesting: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/. One of the recent posts talks about the Flash rendering model and how it's impossible (well, near impossible) to use Cairo to implement the Flash rendering model: it has to be implemented from scratch, including all of the weird bugs from old versions that are relied upon in large amounts of content. The same argument is that Wine will give Windows a run for it's money. The devil is in the details. > >From reading this list and the fact that the chroot environment is > quite bare I got the impression that even stuff Nokia did not license > from other companies but develop themselves was closed as well -- that > might well be wrong, so I'll go look through the svn before I say > anything else :) I can say for sure that the addressbook application in IT2006 is closed source, although the backend is open source (it's Evolution Data Server, LGPL). For the rest of the user-level applications its a mixed bag as far as I know: some are open source as they are derived from existing open source software, and some are closed. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
