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#258
Originally Posted by szopin View Post
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'
ah. I'm not agreeing but now I understood what you're after.

Actually there was an effort to do an open version of maemo some years ago here. You even might have heard of the project "Mer". Of course Mer does something different nowadays but anyway
 

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