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Originally Posted by timoph View Post
Not for all it isn't. Personally I don't care about that side of the story that much. Actually I will most likely not vote for a candidate that seems to be running for the council just to be able to shout to Nokia to hand over it's IP and painting doomsday scenarios. I'd like to see constructive doers that do not get their head stuck on these doomsday scenarios.

btw, why are candidates' views on kickstarter programs, etc. important? I don't see how that has any effect on the council's work. Also did you read the logs (they are quite long but worth the read)
Not yet.

From my perspective (before reading the logs, will stuff those words in my mouth if something gamechanging is included there, sorry in advance) all maemo community did was asking/hoping/begging a company, corporate entity that is not interested in moral ideas of freedom/opensource. What we lacked was monetary argument (any corpo argument really). Negotiations with Nokia if we proposed to them: instead of killing maemo/harmattan offer a price for that team, work, code, we will raise funds; instead of: pls Nokia you said you love FOSS, why you not releasing??? (insert angry rant when no reply is given) - would be much more frutiful (hopefully of course). We need negotiators as speakers for the community, not people endorsing this or other community project. This community deserves better future. And understanding what is needed to achieve the goal (open source Fremantle/Harmattan in my opinion is THE goal), not sending email reminders/followups to people who ignore you every two weeks to put an X on todo list next to 'Try to open source maemo'

EDIT: reading through the logs, just a disclaimer: SD69 I have nothing against you (especially seeing you alone as the council, kudos), my rambling is about community-mentality not finding same language with corporation in general. We need people with marketing/PR experience (maybe even sales, we need to sale/buy this idea). As much as I love programmists, they do not make the best persons for selling an idea to people (or company)

Last edited by szopin; 2012-04-21 at 09:35.
 

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