Re: [MeeGo-community] I can't believe that Meego is now a project to Nokia !

2011-02-11 Thread Rudolf Streif
MeeGo is open source and open source was created by dedicated and smart software developers and engineers to leverage their knowledge and benefit from each other's expertise. Nothing has changed and open source will continue to generate a bounty of opportunities for those who are willing to

Re: [MeeGo-community] I can't believe that Meego is now a project to Nokia !

2011-02-11 Thread Rudolf Streif
-11 at 13:20 -0800, Rudolf Streif wrote: MeeGo is open source and open source was created by dedicated and smart software developers and engineers to leverage their knowledge and benefit from each other's expertise. Nothing has changed and open source will continue to generate a bounty

Re: [MeeGo-community] CES

2011-01-09 Thread Rudolf Streif
One could also find the WeTab at the Intel booth. Nokia showed MeeGo devices in their Qt meeting booth. Tablets and connected TVs were the major attractions in terms of presence at CES. The RIM Blackberry tablet ( http://us.blackberry.com/playbook-tablet/) is very impressive and its UX outperforms

Re: [MeeGo-community] PCWorld: Why Nokia Is in Deep Trouble With MeeGo (should someone reply to this article?)

2011-01-02 Thread Rudolf Streif
...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 1, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Rudolf Streif wrote: An open source platform that intrinsically forces me to give up my intellectual property rights to my own work is not acceptable. It's scary when a term like intellectual property comes into acceptable usage. When people use terms

Re: [MeeGo-community] PCWorld: Why Nokia Is in Deep Trouble With MeeGo (should someone reply to this article?)

2011-01-01 Thread Rudolf Streif
Undoubtly, MeeGo will have to deal with DRM and CA and not just for Connected TV but also for the other device categories namely Handset and IVI. Any platform that will eventually be used by users to consume premium content provided by content owners through networks will have to provide technical

Re: [MeeGo-community] PCWorld: Why Nokia Is in Deep Trouble With MeeGo (should someone reply to this article?)

2011-01-01 Thread Rudolf Streif
' and open platforms. :rjs On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Rudolf Streif rudolf.str...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: Undoubtly, MeeGo will have to deal with DRM and CA and not just for Connected TV but also for the other device categories namely Handset and IVI. Any platform that will eventually

Re: [MeeGo-community] PCWorld: Why Nokia Is in Deep Trouble With MeeGo (should someone reply to this article?)

2010-12-23 Thread Rudolf Streif
There is no use in responding to such an article. It shows rather opinionated journalism using mostly language of affection rather than language of report. Netscape's demise had nothing to do with its technology and/or with making it open source but with the business model and marketing. AOL

Re: [MeeGo-community] MeeGo TV : Is it the right time to be serious about it ?

2010-12-17 Thread Rudolf Streif
Thank you, Dominique, for the introduction and starting MeeGo ConnectedTV. This is going to be a great project and a great application for MeeGo. While the actual work will probably done in the upstream projects MeeGo is pulling from a dedicated MeeGo ConnectedTV group will probably make sense for

Re: [MeeGo-community] how to ensure handset cell transmitter is really off while doing development

2010-12-03 Thread Rudolf Streif
There have been many studies in favor and many against that cell phone usage increases the risk of (brain) tumors. They are mostly based on statistics and the good old saying goes Don't trust any statistics you haven't forged yourself. As far as removing the SIM from the phone will disable the

[MeeGo-community] Broadcom BCM 43xx Wifi with Meego 1.0.1.90

2010-09-17 Thread Rudolf Streif
Does anybody have success getting the Broadcom Wifi driver for BCM43xx to work on the recent MeeGo 1.0.1.90? I installed the netbook image on my Asus EeePc 1015 who is using the BRCM 4313 (0x14e4:0x4727). The kernel object compiles without any problems however it cannot be loaded because of