You people just do not get it do you.

Look at what has happened with Maemo ok.

Maemo.org was started so that developers could develop applications and games etc but when it came to attaching them to the Maemo os the problems started simply because of the closed situation studded with patents and copyrights we have, still on going with Maemo and that is why we got all these crashes going on because you just can not write to an os that is closed in any way or form.

Same with MeeGo, everyone was asked to develop for MeeGo (free community development) then all of a sudden you find the MeeGo os is going to be closed and "outside" development will not be allowed in....

Quole said .....

When Nokia made the open-source community repositories available "out of the box" on the N900, it was a bold, wonderful step forward, away from the Official App Store approach of all the other mobile platforms. Everything I'm hearing from Quim and the community app team suggests that this will happen again on the N9.

I promise you, having the rug pulled from under the community repositories at this late stage of the game is even more frustrating to Nokia than it is to community developers, if not MORE SO.

And as for the (third-party) apps, whether corporate or individual, they are not going to be hosted at meego.com. Not a single one of them. That's the whole problem.

This is actually a very sad and worrisome development for open source. If the Linux Foundation itself, on the 20th anniversary of Linux, is this jittery, what's going to happen to the rest of the Open Source world?

Nokia is, or should i say was very big and at one point could have pulled it together to enable a community to get involved, that never happened once again because of patents and copywrit code.

For a community to work the first thing it must have is the openess of the os it is involved in and writing for, without this it is a clear impossibilty and the very reason Maemo.org has failed with Maemo.

You guys can dream of a open community but when it is being asked to write for closed os's then it just will not work.

Forget free development because it will never work in this world as someone or something will shut it down eventually.