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#134
Originally Posted by wicket View Post
That's quite a dismissive stance to take considering we don't yet have a good solution to the problem. I'm not asking for a costly investigation, just a simple enquiry. I'd like get a better understanding of the situation with Opera and how it is that they have been granted distribution rights to a large part of Nokia's software catalogue.

It might even be worth contacting Opera to ask why they will not be hosting Fremantle and Harmattan applications but have agreed to host applications for other dead platforms such as S60/Symbian. After all, they are one of the few companies who actually bothered to develop for our relatively obscure platforms.

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I asked the question on this Opera blog. Let's vote it up.
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I read up on the opera app store - from the little information that i could gather it is replacing the nokia store, but not transferring the apps, instead it requires the apps to be re-submitted by the developers.

for example a quote from that blog:
We will be working closely with Microsoft to provide clarity on how to republish your apps. We’ll have more information for you in the near future, so stay tuned.
so to duplicate the opera deal would be essentially encourage the app developers to upload to openrepos.net (no need for us to duplicate and maintain yet another repo system) and co-ordinate with openrepos.net and nokia to try get a deal to redirect the hatterman default store to openrepos.net.

I consider this feasible.

but in my view we do not have the financial resources (to pay the legal costs ) on had to pull off a full transfer, i do not see this changing any time soon, and i am aware (now) of an existing request to nokia that has been already turned down.
 

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