Nokia doesn’t get it
Okay, I’m no longer cautiously optimistic about the N900. I’ve officially crossed it off my list, and any claims that Nokians make about the N900 being an actual open source platform are patently false.
This reminded me of bug #176 opened in 2005 (yes, 4 years and 4.5 hardware iterations ago): The N900 still does not have native ogg support. This means to me that Nokia deliberately removed that support. They must have; all the underlying software (gstreamer, etc) has it by default.
If the N900 was, in fact, an open source project, ogg support would have been added by the community. Heck, I looked at adding it myself back in the day. But it’s not there, therefore the N900 is not open source. Oh well. There’s always the N910, that’s sure to come out in 6 months. Maybe Nokia will have gotten their act together by then.