[OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?

[Nic Roets]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Robert Kaiser <kairo at kairo.at> wrote:
> andrzej zaborowski schrieb:
>>
>> Note that that there will also be some folks that have a Nokia phone
>> because they're open souce nuts and use a Maemo-linux Nokia phone.
>> AFAIK Maemo, Palm's Webos and Android are all about the same level of
>> "open", i.e. linux-based but including some closed source drivers or
>> libraries.
>
> I have to disagree, as Android is quite closed compared to those other two,

If you look at Android from the view point of the end user or the
hacker, it's quite closed. DRM, binary drivers, and the mobile
operators occasionally blocking tethering applications.

However, independent application developers with valid business models
love Android. Their applications aren't tied to a proprietary
operating system. There have been reports that it's even possible to
remove Google from the ecosystem, should they ever become evil.