My guess would be that competitors are not willing to commit R&D budget big enough to support initial development team.
--vlg On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 18:44 +0100, Hanno Zulla wrote: > Hi, > > >> So in other words, despite Maemo being open source and free enough to be > >> portable to other hardware, there is no other, non-Nokia device you can > >> develop Maemo applications for, right? I wonder why this is so, since I > >> like Maemo a lot (from a user's perspective). > > > > Because there is no way to download "maemo" easily and build your own > > images for a different machine. > > If I am not mistaken, this is not exactly true. > > Maemo (as such) is free enough, some of the apps and drivers that Nokia > ships with its tablets are not. A competitor interested in building a > Maemo device should be able to adapt Maemo to its hardware and build > replacements for the non-free apps. > > I wonder why this hasn't happened, yet. > > Regards, > > Hanno > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
