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	misterc	2011-07-22 , 13:37
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Originally Posted by abill_uk

There was something wrong in the creation of Maemo.org right from the beggining and i will try to explain why i say this,

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Now we are at the gate of closure and all because the wrong people dealt with the opening of Maemo.org in my opinion because not one was obviously a software or hardware engineer who could visulise what would happen because of closed components.

It is therefore my opinion Nokia never supported Maemo.org at all but in fact made sure it would bring huge problems for Maemo.

i agree with your impression that Maemo was flawed from the beginning, but i don't think it was sabotage on NOKIA's part.
i remember reading an article a few weeks ago explaining the evolution of NOKIA & NOKIA's management; one of the key moment (the beginning of the end, so to speak) was about ten yrs ago when the company turned from "technology oriented" with engineers crawling all over the place to a... PROFITABLE company where a lawyer or MBA could become manager.
i think Maemo's failure is plain dumb incompetency due, like you point out to lack of technological understanding

Now i would love to know from the council just what will happen to Maemo.org, is it to stay open ? is it to change name or is it to be shut down?.

already reflected about that...
if the Maemo community keeps supporting the Maemo customers, maybe NOKIA will keep financing it?

is there right now a need to change the name?

Maemo is not going to get any new devices (running on real Maemo code), but maybe it is possible to ease the transition by porting as many apps to MeeGo / Harmatan and maybe some new stuff back?

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