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Originally Posted by rcolistete View Post
It is not only me !
- NITDroid for N9 has thousand of users, is cited everywhere. The majority of NITDroid users are "simple" Android users, but some Harmattan developers use NITDroid to help test their Qt softwares ported from Maemo/MeeGo to Android, there are about one thousand Qt softwares available in Android Market / Google Play;
- Easy Debian/HarmChom for N9/N950 has created huge interest in the Harmattan community because it gives many powerful softwares not available on Harmattan : OpenOffice, Abiword, Gnumeric, TeX/TeXMaker, gedit, gFTP, Icedove (Thunderbird), wxMaxima, etc. They work with the Harmattan virtual keyboard, i.e., they are full operational on Nokia N9 (not only on N950). See my blog posts, which have more than one thousand hits in 3 months;
- Inception is used by many softwares/projects for Harmattan, including allowing OverClocking (which is very popular), chroot (Easy Debian, Harmattan SDK, etc), running .o softwares (compiled by gcc), etc. Thousands of users depend on Inception for the everyday use.

Resume : NITDroid, Inception and Easy Debian for N9 are not simple softwares, they are system softwares which enable many other softwares to run (thousands for NITDroid and Easy Debian) so they are indeed used in everyday life of thousand of Harmattan users. These coding projects are totally apart from other "Coding Competition" softwares with respect to usefulness, impact to the community, difficult to develop/test, etc.
1. They are NOT going to change the rules of the CC.
2. If these programs have such merit, they are guaranteed a CC win.
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