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Originally Posted by szopin View Post
To get back on topic: Is council the best part to... how to say it, assuming lumiaman's predictions are lunatic and Nokia does end up bankrupt, ideas of maemo revival go into drain, would council be the ones responsible for... idk, starting kickstarter campaigns to get 100k$-1m$ to buy maemo components in order to opensource them? Would council as maemo-community-reps have a better negotiation-ground for such action?

There's already been some actions around trying to make sure the ducks are all in a row, just in case. It's been a slow going thing, which I personally have not been involved in at any capacity beyond spectator (and that was just recently).

Frankly, I'm in the camp that strongly believes that we'll have a good amount of warning before the ship starts to sink. But I also believe that it will be harder to do things on a sinking ship than to do precautionary work as we sail into the Atlantic.

Really, what's the worst case? We line up things and then Nokia rebounds and everything is funded until free warp-power takes over and we can store/run a personal archive of all of this in a live mirroring VM that runs on a chip the size of a grain of rice? What's lost in that, minus some time and effort for those that want to put such things into this community? Now what's the other worst case? What you spelled out... Sounds like Pascal's wager to me.

Last edited by woody14619; 2012-04-23 at 20:17.
 

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