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#6
Originally Posted by qgil
This isn't a special platform development story, isn't it. However, it starts becoming kinda special when these third parties collaborate in an open community. And this is the role plaid by the maemo.org name.
This is exactly what I like from the maemo.org community.
Nokia is part of it.

I usually never take extreme positions.
I am in favor of open source, but not against commercial applications (if the commercial companies play fair).
I am in favor of commercial applications, but not against open source ones.

I see quality in both of them.
I demand from both of them what can be reasonably demanded.
I might not pretend from an open source, free application a particular feature or even a bug fix, but I might pretend it from a commercial one I paid for.
And examples go on like that.

In Maemo.org there's no real bright line. We all play together on a common platform.
I can choose to develop on it only for the fun of it.
I can choose to develop on it for fun and decide to make money out of it.
I can choose to develop on it just to make money out of it.
Nokia is providing me all the tools I need. The decision is up to me.

What differentiate it from other platforms is that all the tools that Nokia gave me, are free.
On the iPhone I would have to pay even if I choose to make my application free.
On Symbian and Windows Mobile is the same.
The tools to develop are not free (AFAIK).
That's understandable even if I do not agree with it. Those platform are targeted at a completely different kind of community.
Fair.

What I'd like to see in the logo is this collaboration.
I has to look as an open source/free logo. You look at it and you think about openness and freedom.
I hope the chosen one will make this .. clear.

Update: jussi logo, for example, reflects what I've said about collaboration. There is a line, not bright, but is there. We all collaborate. I like it.

Last edited by anidel; 2008-06-20 at 08:18.