Thread: Maemo buyout by the community??
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2011-09-29 , 03:15
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Originally Posted by geohsia View Post
Umm... The 3 vendors you mentioned are software vendors. Nokia is a hardware vendor first, then incidentally software.

BTW, I enjoy the back and forth but unfortunately am about to get on an airplane so won't be able to respond.
As you reminded me yourself, we are talking about the software. That's why I mentioned software vendors--Nokia is a hardware vendor that was doing software. Perhaps they would have done best to listen to your very same advice and concentrate on the HARDWARE and make it as open-source friendly as possible so that the community (and other commercial entities--thus spurring a whole ecosystem around their hardware) would develop the software to run on these very portable devices. What a shame... Again.

Anyway--have a safe flight! Good talking with you!!
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