Thread: [Council] Council_Update-July_2011
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2011-07-12 , 13:19
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#56
Originally Posted by ysss View Post
Is there any more details to Nokia's abandonment of maemo, especially its trademarks?

http://maemo.org/legal/terms_of_use/trademarks/
Originally Posted by lma View Post
An excellent point. I don't think they would abandon the trademark, and as NOK becomes more and more MSFT-friendly and Linux-friendly people are leaving for greener pastures it is looking less and less likely that they would behave as benevolently as RedHat with the Fedora trademark for example. Perhaps we should start looking for an alternative name?
Nokia intends to use MeeGo or MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan (or something similar) from now on for its products and does not intend to use Maemo ever again. So if we become a non-profit, what will we call ourselves? Maemo Foundation? Hildon Foundation?

I think it is in our interest to defer somewhat to Nokia on the name. What's more important is that we keep maemo.org as intact as possible through any "migration". If we ask people to go to a different domain name, or if we lose content, then we will start to lose people.
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