{"id":167,"date":"2009-08-27T18:35:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/?p=167"},"modified":"2009-08-27T18:35:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T16:35:40","slug":"n900-a-great-milestone-for-the-free-software-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2009\/08\/27\/n900-a-great-milestone-for-the-free-software-community\/","title":{"rendered":"N900: a great milestone for the free software community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the fuss that&#8217;s going on around the announcement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maemo.nokia.com\/n900\">Nokia N900<\/a>, I honestly didn&#8217;t want to write <em>yet another post<\/em> about it.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t resist \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to talk about its features or its specs. I just want to say that it&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> exciting for me to see the world&#8217;s largest manufacturer of mobile phones releasing a high-end handset with a GNU\/Linux-based operating system.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this is a great milestone for the free software movement as a whole, because none of this could have been possible without all the work that Linux, GNOME, Debian and other projects have been doing before this.<\/p>\n<p>Being part of the N900 team, of course I want this new device to hit the big time; but what I really want to see is <em>not just<\/em> the success of this particular model, but the proof that free software has entered the mobile phone market to stay. For good.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Did I say I&#8217;m excited? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the fuss that&#8217;s going on around the announcement of the Nokia N900, I honestly didn&#8217;t want to write yet another post about it. But I can&#8217;t resist \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m not going to talk about its features or its specs. I just want to say that it&#8217;s really exciting for me to see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,9,10,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-gnome","category-gpul","category-igalia","category-maemo","category-free-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}