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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Can you explain how you arrive at that odd "most likely never" conclusion?
Perhaps from this very thread?
Originally Posted by tswindell View Post
You raise fair points, MeeGo up until 2 1/2 months ago on the N900 was at the whim of contributors who were mostly scratching itches and getting odd bits & bogs working. When Nokia got involved and created the N900 Community Edition project (previously Developer Edition), we suddenly got a huge amount of momentum, because for the first time we actually had clear goals and targets. And they were simple and achievable. So recently MeeGo for the N900 has become a much more active and viable option.

I guess there's a misconception of what we're doing here. We've always said MeeGo on the N900 will never be ready for "end users" it's not yet and probably never will be a goal for the project. And that is probably fundamentally the issue when posting things about MeeGo on this forum.
Originally Posted by tswindell View Post
I would love MeeGo on the N900, whether through Cordia, or MeeGo N900 Community Edition, to be end-user acceptable, and even though I don't think this is our primary goal for the project, it is certainly a possibility. I'm pretty sure by the end of this year MeeGo on the N900 will be something very functional and useful for most N900 users. That is, if we keep going in the direction at the pace we're going at.
Both those quotes are kind of contradictory. But the bolded parts both suggest that "end user ready" is not a goal of the project. Which is why I feel "Community Edition" is a bit mis-leading (unless you read "community" to mean developers/power users and not end users, and lets face it, there are more end users here than ever before).

And there's the biggest problem with posting information here. If it is not meant to be end user ready, and you post about MeeGo CE in a community that contains members it's not targeted at, there is bound to be confusion.

Texrat - Apparently you believe "most likely never" to be incorrect. Which would imply you believe it will be "end user ready"? If so, what has led you to that conclusion?
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