Thread: Who makes the maemo.org community?
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2008-06-01 , 08:17
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
In Canola's case, largely for similar reasons to maemo (though I really don'r see the commercial reasoning). It was a managerial decision entirely beyond the developers (and one which the developers, as with maemo, attempted to fight).
In the end it's only management decisions. if the management decides tomorrow that canola should be ported to S60 and the maemo branch is dead, then that's it. That's what management means: making decisions. The intentions of developers sure are good (probably even apple's developers *g*), but they hardly count.
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
I'm not sure if you meant the 'unequal players' bit to apply to Canola, but that's at least one case where their contributed code far outweighs the size and significance of their closed code.
Yes, the unequal players part would apply to canola as well from my point of view. I wasn't aware, though, that the project did contribute code - I thought it was completely closed, actually. Maybe it's not all black and white and canola is the grey in between. Still, having studied law (long ago ), I prefer to set up abstract rules in advance. The "grey" cases are to be decided afterwards.
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