{"id":438,"date":"2010-01-26T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2010-01-26T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:02:06","slug":"re-how-free-is-the-nokia-n900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Re: How free is the Nokia N900?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=433\">my questions on the freeness of the Nokia N900<\/a>, I received quite a lot of comments. I&#8217;m trying to summarize the most important points here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maemo is not 100% free software. There are some proprietary components. The <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.maemo.org\/Free_Maemo\">Free Maemo wiki page<\/a> lists them all, and there are some explanations on <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.maemo.org\/Open_development\/Why_the_closed_packages\">Why the closed packages<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.maemo.org\/Mer\">Mer project<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.maemo.org\/User:Jebba\/Mer\">install notes for N900<\/a>) aims at providing a 100% free alternative to Maemo.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s possible to rebuild\/upgrade the kernel, however the newest kernel build-depends on a fiasco-gen package that is not provided. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.maemo.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=7972\">being worked on<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Nokia is sponsoring <a href=\"http:\/\/mer-project.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/my-first-day-as-maemoorg-distmaster.html\">someone to work on Maemo derivatives<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For all the details, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=433#comments\">comments<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/err.no\/personal\/blog\/tech\/2010-01-25-18-03_how_free_is_the_n900.html\">Tollef&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my questions on the freeness of the Nokia N900, I received quite a lot of comments. I&#8217;m trying to summarize the most important points here. Maemo is not 100% free software. There are some proprietary components. The Free Maemo wiki page lists them all, and there are some explanations on Why the closed packages. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian","category-planetubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}