Thread: WP*.org should be the new name for this community.
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
They are dying because of lack of interest and as you well know Maemo may well be a great interest to you and me but where are the developers?.

This WP could well spell the end of interest from the developers point of view in that there is nothing left to develop Maemo or Meego for so where we go now???.
Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
The absurd thing is the community was trying to develop into a closed source OS ie Maemo on the N900.

Where is the point in that? it had to come to a sticky end eventually and i am suprised nobody thought of this when they started Maemo.org in the first place.

Maybe many promises were broken from the Nokia stable !.
I say it goes wide and digs back into its founding principle and goes back to being a FORM FACTOR related site and go back to the InternetTabletTalk.com name and cover a DIVERSITY of brands, closed-source as WELL as open-source and stop *****-footing around like it has been doing ever since it changed its name to the doomed Maemo.org trademarked brand name which Nokia has, I'm sure most people can agree, pissed all over.

I'm not sure I'd still call Maemo closed-source, though. It was open-source BASED... but ultimately, the proper term would be 'open-core software'. Which is, in some ways, worse than closed-source because it's really a trap disguised as openness. Check out that link--there's even a little diddly in there about how community is used and abused by it. Go on. You know you want to.
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