D’Souza: Maru is open source!

On the Maru blog, developer Preetam D'Souza has announced that the Maru project is now open source. Maru is a desktop system running on a smartphone, so that adding a display, keyboard, and mouse to a phone allows the user to run their desktop on the phone-and still be able to use the device as a phone. "I've gotta say, the open source community never ceases to amaze me. I've had emails from people asking if they can help test Maru on other devices on a Sunday. How many normal people do you know that willingly want to give up their Sundays to help test software? I've experienced this helpfulness time and time again, whether it was the speakers at open source conferences so willing to share their knowledge, or the folks on forums who were so keen to help out beginners like me. Maru would never have been possible without that spirit of openness."