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Originally Posted by szopin View Post
Not all Nokia IP has been handed over. For a test someone might upload Maemo image for flashing on android device and we will see who will send a cease and desist letter, Nokia or the troll (or MS???). For Google there is a lot to get. Quadcores burn a lot of energy, so if that is needed for smooth working of their system they have a battery-tech block (or 6h uptime devices, try to market those), so either reinvent Android (maemo IP would come very handy here) or go Apple way: we can run one app smooth at a time - multitasking is for geeks.
Would council be able to get into an agreement with Nokia that the community has preference (even over price as the opensource idea is worth more than money, of course to some limits) when it gets to selling maemo parts? Can we get the first offer, before big corpos that will buy it to kill it? I'd vote for someone interested in that direction of community-Nokia talks
Google bought Motorola mobile.
they have money to burn, but... that much money?
who else cares about open source?
who?
Novell?
Red Hat?
the buntu crap company?
BIG (i mean, BIG) techno companies like IBM or Oracle invest in open source, but even then, it is only to better sell their actual products, not for the sake of FOSS...
same thing for Maemo, isn't it?

EDIT: my take on this is that some Chinese company would buy the brand, the factories & whatever IP is left and... bye bye Maemo
pretty much what happend with Rover (the car company; & it wasn't for the lack of big (car) companies (Honda, BMW) trying to save it; consumers simply had lost their faith in the brand even though Rover was once a leading edge company (Land / Range Rover))
i doubt however that Maemo is enough of a commercial success to hope for that...
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Last edited by misterc; 2012-04-21 at 08:46. Reason: my take...