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I like your logo, but...

I wonder how you can capture the fact that maemo.org has some very talented developers in it, giving free applications both to the "community" and to a large, international corporation that is only very slowly moving towards giving to the "community" in the same way. Yes, OK, they're doing more than most big corporations, but really, it seems like all the best apps on the tablets have come from the community, not from the organization that sells the hardware and hosts the files in their repositories. Even the good apps are built on the shoulders of other open source projects, and more often than not, the final product on the tablet seems closed, secretive, and not very interoperable. A perfect example is the browser. It is a Maemo wrapper around the Firefox engine. Try running it in any window manager other than Maemo's version of matchbox window manager, and it just will not work. Or try to get the camera and mic working with any standard Linux app that works with every other webcam and mic. You'll be in for hours of weeping and gnashing of teeth.

just a note: your "g" looks like a "q".

EDIT: Hm, that turned into quite a rant.
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Last edited by qole; 2008-06-19 at 23:35.