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#166
I gave UT the old college try on a Nexus 7, but UT was more of a bodged Ubuntu flavor UI running on hacked Android-Linux than what I was hoping for, the well known Ubuntu flavored Debian. And I didn't even get the benefit of being able to run the healthy and growing selection of FOSS APKs from fdroid repos, nor the rich ARM Ubuntu and/or Debian repos.
Maybe if bodging together an app were as easy as on the N900 it would have worked better, but most of us love the Maemo/Meego phones because it used our familiar os and tools. They could also release a FOSS releas of a cross compatible win98, it doesn't mean we should all flock over form a great OS which we already know. Problem is you apparently need a megacorp like Nokia or Sharp to even get bin drivers for hardware like phones and PDAs, and forget open source drivers or even the specs to write our own so that every dork from Amiga to BeOS, even a homebrew IBM 360OS couldport for the hardware.
 

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