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VDVsx 2010-01-06 15:15
Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org
 
As some know, we removed some emulators from maemo.org due to a legal dispute between Nokia and Nintendo. The dispute was not related to the emulators itself, but since the maemo.org infrastructure *is* paid for by Nokia, we decide to remove the emulators to avoid further problems.

This decision was made by Nokia together with the council and the developers involved, but we fail to communicate the decision in the first place to the community, was a very messy situation in a very grey area, and we were all a bit afraid to create more buzz. On behalf of the council I sincerely apologize for this lack of communication.

After some evaluation and discussion we decide to put the emulators back at maemo.org since there's no copyright infringement in the emulators code.

Maemo is intended to be an open platform, and we not intend to do any censorship in the applications available as long they meet the required Q&A, but the maemo.org infrastructure is sponsored by Nokia, we can't risk losing it.


On Behalf of the Maemo Community Council,

Valério Valério
Maemo Community Council Chair

bandora 2010-01-06 15:59
Re: Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by VDVsx (Post 455641)
As some know, we removed some emulators from maemo.org due to a legal dispute between Nokia and Nintendo. The dispute was not related to the emulators itself, but since the maemo.org infrastructure *is* paid for by Nokia, we decide to remove the emulators to avoid further problems.

This decision was made by Nokia together with the council and the developers involved, but we fail to communicate the decision in the first place to the community, was a very messy situation in a very grey area, and we were all a bit afraid to create more buzz. On behalf of the council I sincerely apologize for this lack of communication.

After some evaluation and discussion we decide to put the emulators back at maemo.org since there's no copyright infringement in the emulators code.

Maemo is intended to be an open platform, and we not intend to do any censorship in the applications available as long they meet the required Q&A, but the maemo.org infrastructure is sponsored by Nokia, we can't risk losing it.


On Behalf of the Maemo Community Council,

Valério Valério
Maemo Community Council Chair
Great! Now the million dollar question is.. when? ;)

VDVsx 2010-01-06 16:01
Re: Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by bandora (Post 455690)
Great! Now the million dollar question is.. when? ;)
As soon as the developers upload them, some are already on their way to the repositories AFAIK.

bandora 2010-01-06 16:09
Re: Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by VDVsx (Post 455694)
As soon as the developers upload them, some are already on their way to the repositories AFAIK.
Very nice! Thanks!

therock 2010-01-06 16:13
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oh that is so nice.. not the emu thing but the "not intend to do any censorship in the applications available as long they meet the required Q&A"

drm 2010-01-06 16:13
Re: Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org
 
Nice news.
I sincerely don’t understand nokia position regarding maemo. They have a huge support for nokia n900 in all the reviews and they failed miserably in distribution. Here in Portugal they put something like 50 phones for sale after a huge advertisement campaign in every street.
By the number of downloads I would say that they sold 12000 worldwide by now. What a disgrace…

Hotshot 2010-01-06 16:14
Re: Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org
 
This is great news!!!

Dave999 2010-01-06 16:14
Re: Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org
 
awesome...Thx! snes is always best on the N900 :D

VDVsx 2010-01-07 12:47
Re: Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org
 
Some of the emulators already landed in Extras, others are still in -testing, please test&vote them.

krisse 2010-01-07 17:04
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Quote:
Originally Posted by drm (Post 455710)
By the number of downloads I would say that they sold 12000 worldwide by now. What a disgrace…
The number of downloads is only for Extras. Extras is disabled by default on most versions of the firmware, so most N900 users don't know about it and cannot access it by default.

That's why I did a tutorial telling people about how to activate Extras, and you'll notice the very first comment is from someone who didn't know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMOCbEWQ1Jg


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