Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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ajalkane is offline ajalkane
2012-08-15 , 22:25
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Originally Posted by shmerl View Post
Yes, that's how I understand it too (i.e. Jolla is Mer based, and through Mer it's related to the historic Meego project). However other Wiki editors find Jolla statements confusing or even think that Jolla means "Meego based" as something besides Mer. So they want references. Unfortunately Jolla's overusage of the name "Meego" only complicates matters.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jolla
I can understand your point. But the discussion shows me just people who understand very well that JollaOS is based on Mer, which is based on MeeGo, therefore JollaOS is based on MeeGo by "inheritance". There seems to be one guy who seems to be concerned about the copyright of the name "MeeGo" and that it shouldn't be use by Jolla because there is no permission from Linux Foundation.

Granted, I did not have the time nor patience to read any but few dozen of the comments. But if the rest is the same, I find this discussion silly.

Wikipedia should be "for the common man". MeeGo based is the more recognizable term and should be used in the article. Mer should also be referenced, but erasing MeeGo for Mer would not serve the "general public" IMO.
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