Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android

An anonymous reader writes "Maemo 5 and Android have received a lot of publicity lately, despite the former not even shipping yet. Both have become famous partly for using the Linux kernel, but now that we have a choice, how do we pick one? Is the issue as mundane as choosing your favorite desktop distribution, or is there a more significant difference? This article compares the two from an end user and developer perspective, emphasizing root access and ease of sharing code."pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/1335227/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/27/1335227"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/1335227/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ajswwU-Pm0cfMFxb7XGeqAB32i4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ajswwU-Pm0cfMFxb7XGeqAB32i4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ajswwU-Pm0cfMFxb7XGeqAB32i4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ajswwU-Pm0cfMFxb7XGeqAB32i4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/h1k0rnpLfkc" height="1" width="1"/

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