On 24 March 2010 18:39, Nils Faerber <nils.faer...@kernelconcepts.de> wrote: > Wichmann, Mats D schrieb: >> meego-dev-boun...@meego.com wrote: >>> For this reason a social contract could help us, establishing a >>> default requirements if you want to integrate a component/driver in the >>> MeeGo project. >>> >>> Maybe the social contract sounds very free-software "fanatic" for a >>> company, but is one of the best warranties to offer a complete open >>> source project. >>> >>> Besides, it would be a signal of commitment with the community, and it >>> will encourage participation in the development. >> >> My completely personal, completely unofficial reaction is >> that this would have a LOT of problems on the Tivoization >> front, as it seems to me everybody below the netbook and >> possible tablet type device is interested in some level of >> locking down their image... Don't know if it looks that >> way to the rest of you or I'm just being too pessimistic? > > A vendor lock is what every business wants to achieve. The "wet dream" > of the suit and tie people - customers being forced to come back and > spend their money with you and you alone. > > But those times are over. > There is intrinsic *need* for it - there never was. > > They ended on the PC first and then went from PC to Server to mainframe > to mobile devices and finally even mobile phones where one thought until > recently that operators would force anything close. But they loosing power. > A locked down system means that you will become the only one maintaining > it. Being the only one mean that you have to implement everything on > your own. The systems become more and more complex and feature rich so > it gets more and more impossible to try and do it 100% on your own. > > And this is where open source comes into play. > You can get tons of complex features free without your own development > effort. This is what makes it so appealing. And this is why it succeeds. > > In some minds there is still this vendor lock idea existing. But it is > changing, it just needs time. > > Also newer developments in hardware will make also embedded hardware > easier to access and less intensive to port new software onto it. This > will speed up Linux ports and spread it even further... > > > I am convinced, openness will succeed - also in the business minds. > It just takes time.
Doesn't look in this way when two big vendors ( Apple & Google) are redirecting all the application stuff to the on-line markets ( to have the complete control about the apps), and don't forget OVI store ( we haven't enough information about it and the connection that it is going to have in the MeeGo project). Cheers, Adrian. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
