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Comment on Android, Mythbusters and openness by Marius Gedminas

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:30:33 +0000

Maemo _is_ more open than Android, when you consider things like letting the user control his device (e.g. root access) or install arbitrary applications.

Maemo is probably about as open as Android (and is less open than OpenMoko) when you consider bundled applications. Perhaps half of the libraries and most of the applications are closed. Maybe I’m pessimistic, but I remember my original joy (hey, the 770 runs an open-source OS) and disappointment (crap, half of the stuff is proprietary).

There’s also Mer, which takes the open bits of Maemo and tries replace the proprietary bits to get a complete distro.

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:41:56 +0000

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Comment on Android, Mythbusters and openness by stephan

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:25:31 +0000

@1: Thanks for your input, I hadn’t seen that pages before.

@2: I didn’t ever say I made a deep analysis, I just noted that Maemo, which is supposed to be more open than Android, comes with installer scripts which contain a pretty strict copyright notice by Nokia. The bug reporting point is good though, going to report one after finishing to respond to your comment.

However, I did not find the page both you and #1 are mentioning. I went straight to maemo.org, clicked on downloads and fremantle on the lower right which took me straight to http://www.forum.nokia.com/Tools_Docs_and_Code/Tools/Platforms/Maemo/. No mention of alternative install methods there.

Comment on Android, Mythbusters and openness by Felipe Contreras

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:14:50 +0000

So you spent a few minutes with Maemo, very deep analysis.

If you would have paused for a moment and looked at the table of contents of the SDK installation guide and you would have noticed the chapter titled “Manual Installation”, which describes how to install the SDK without any script nor proprietary stuff.

And of course, if you actually bothered to report a bug complaining about the license of the script I’m sure it would be changed in a heartbeat.

But I guess making a compelling argument in your blog is more important than showing the reality.

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thammi's status on Sunday, 08-Nov-09 15:49:15 UTC - Identi.ca — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:45:42 +0000

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Comment on Android, Mythbusters and openness by Julian Andres Klode

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:30:10 +0000

Maybe installing the SDK is the right way for you,
according to the instructions at http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Final_SDK_Installation#Manual_Installation

For reasons why there are closed packages, see http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages.

Comment on Python interface validation by razyel

razyel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:47:28 +0000

I’m very interested to use this kind of validation in my project TwinPanel. I use zope-interface now.

Cheers

Comment on Should CLI debug output and error messages be localized in a GUI application? by bcx

bcx — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:55:22 +0000

I think there are two different type of error messages. One you’d display in a nice dialog to some imaginary user (I always image my mother is reading it) and then the user would know what to do. I’d like those messages translated.

The second type of error message is when something is terribly wrong. The type that gives you lots of techy details to solve a difficult problem. The one you (or medium-techy users) would copy-paste to google and get the answer they need to solve a problem. They need to be in english because of two reasons:

* They probably contain technical slang, something translators might confuse for actual words that can be translated. As such a translated error message can get very confusing. The english is probably more clear

* Google. You can search the entire web if the message has occurred somewhere else. Find bugreports. etc.

Comment on Removing a lot of frozen mails from Exim’s mail queue by mickeyc

mickeyc — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:10:45 +0000

It might be handy to learn exiqgrep and xargs. I would have removed those frozen messages without writing to a file, with a simple:

exiqgrep -z -i|xargs exim -Mrm