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Estel
2011-08-16 , 08:39
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Of course I can't speak for council - and don't try to - but I'm afraid that answering this question, would require to first clarify what we think about when we say "Maemo".
For me, Maemo is Open Source Community - just like many other great Communities, be it Debian, LibreOffice or even, more narrow, like KDE, GNOME... I don't care about fact, that we're not "Foundation" by any country law - we can become, and I think we'll finally do.
Considering that, for me being devoted to - for example - Cordia on Meego core, is still in spirit of Maemo. Doh, even if - for some reasons - we conclude that supporting Meego CE (CE Ui on Meego core) instead of Cordia is better approach, this is also right with "spirit", I think. Going in evolutionary steps - supporting so much older hardware revisions as we can (In this case, N900, cause if I understand correctly, Meego core on N8xx/N7xx is impossible, both by performance reasons and some other constraints), while looking forward and, if no one want to create device suiting our needs, create it ourselves (at first attempt, using existing, but still 100% compatible one, like CordiaTAB is doing, but later, designing our totally own).
If, by being "devoted" to Maemo, You mean sticking to Maemo 5 only (or with CSSU at most), I doubt You'll find many devoted people, cause it would be like sticking to Amiga OS (which I love, by the way) - nice sentimental/hobby thing, but without much practical use, at least compared to other alternatives. also have in mind, that "Maemo" name is almost certainly lost, due to Nokia unwilling of donating this trademark (just like Oracle did with Open Office - no big deal, it's LibreOffice now)
At this point, there is nothing better "on market" for real power users, than Maemo (with N900). We want to keep it, no matter under what name. I want to say in 2-3 years, that there is nothing better than Cordia/Meego CE/ whatever, and we're using it and contributing to it.
I know that other platform are also evolving, but, if in 2-3 years objective point would be, that - for example - android is currently best, that would mean almost no real evolution at all, IMO. I really don't believe that any other platform for mobile devices will aim @ so much openness as our current Maemo/Cordia/whatever-name-You-like. And, to make things clear, it's all due to Community effort - Nokia have contribution at beginning (for starting this) but it's rather big troll now (think abil_uk mixed with epitaph mixed with partially supermoderator powers mixed with Fidel "I'm busy now, leave me!" from JA2), than real partner in contributing. No offense mean - It's just metaphor. Despite that many Nokia employers (current employers) are very positively towards us, Nokia as a brand is PITA for our efforts for loong time already.
IMO, faster we cut off our connections and become totally independent entity, the better.
So, considering that, do you think i'm devoted to Maemo? and, do you think this question can be answered directly, in current circumstances, by anyone?
Ps.
I protest from using Nokia/Maemo as one thing
Nokia != Maemo. currently, Maemo seems to be quite opposite for Nokia
(all wp7 mess, all N9 mess, all N950 mess, all #WONTFIX and wont relicense...)
For a quite long time, it seems that most of mactive community members are rather
hostile
towards current Nokia. Or, at least, neutral -.
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