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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Ditto. I have no issues with donating time nor money with projects that I have continuously used that delivers features and bugfixes that benefit me.

The problem I'm seriously having - I will stand by my initial post of that I'd donate - is what will be maintained. The bits that are closed affect either only the N900 or largely make it harder to port elsewhere.

If that were not the case, we'd see more Maemo on other devices.

I'd love to see Maemo 5/Harmattan on say... a Nook Color. That project that placed MeeGo on a Nook Color seems to have stalled. I'd love to see less dependence on the Nokia N900 and have Maemo 5 on another device.

And I'd love to see better communication from the people over the maintenance - the people I'd be donating to - than as it stands exists from the existing committee (that gets their information from Nokia, then relays it to us).

That last part isn't to be politically scrutinized, it is just that when people donate, people have expectations. And when you donate to something like NeoOffice/J, well let's just say when OS X Lion came out, they had a fix in record time. Not even Adobe can say that about their $3000 USD or so Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5).

I think definitely it would be nice to see Maemo on other devices and I think thats a good place to start. I mean how fast would Maemo be running on something with alot more ram and a better processor....real quick I'd imagine

I definitely think the code needs to be released by Nokia (not hacked or RE)

Perhaps Blogs from maintenance or some kind of section on the forum for them to post.
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