En/na Quim Gil ha escrit: >>> Do these binaries impede the community getting what they want? What do >>> they want, by the way? >> working wireless lan, battery charging, screen dimming and watchdog >> pinging would be a good start. > > Do you mean that the community can't do a thing unless this > functionality is covered by open source packages instead of binaries?
The community sure can do many things, but cannot do some *core* things, like replacing the kernel with a newer one (once the binary blobs stops working since the vendor lost interest in providing it), or replacing some nokia applets to control those things. > Do you mean that Nokia 770 owners can't work on progress themselves > until these components are opensourced? or the hardware is documented > What would happen if the community could reuse these binaries in images > build and redistributed by themselves? it changes almost nothing if those binaries stop working with a newer kernel/libc/libwhatever > Also, is it feasible to think in open source alternatives developed by > the community? I think so, but the hardware must be thoroughly documented. Bye -- Luca _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
