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Originally Posted by R2D2
The following extract from the same page does IMHO also make sense and should maybe a bit encouraged by us. I at least understand.
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Weeeeelllllllllll. The success of the Zaurii comes mostly from the good open source alternative OS'es you can install. The original OS is pretty boring. The game is: Sharp lets people do all kinds of things with their Zaurii -> People develop open source software for free -> People buy Zaurii -> Revenue for Sharp.
Trying to keep open source developers down / controlled is pretty stupid. iRex doesn't sell software, but devices. OS developers are not the competition. If they are good, they will make people buy Iliads. If they are bad, nobody will use their software and iRex' sales are as before.
OS developers cost you nothing (but a reflash utility) but generate consumers. They do it for fun, so iRex should better make them having fun, and not start this childish war against its user.
Just my $.02