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Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post
Based upon the above qoute, and others in this thread, can't the same logic be applied to OS2006? It's not really supported by Nokia any more is it? Do any tablets ship with it? Isn't it really an "alternative" OS at this point? Therefore, shouldn't i be moved into the alternative category?
The argumentation to consider OS2006 (an OS pre-installed in the 770) as an Alternative escapes to me, but if you want to propose this please start a new thread.

Along these lines shouldn't Maemo 1&2 in the Old, archived category be combined under something like "old OS's" as well. Obvoiusly, with appropriate stickies if anyone cares to do them.
The idea of Old is to put there everything deprecated nobody cares about anymore. If you want to push merges and stickies there, go for it. I prefer to invest my time making the active forums a better place. For instance, OS2008 or Applications are very active forums still waiting for a useful and informative sticky.

If fremantle has its' own category (it's not a released usable OS yet), shouldn't Mer (being highly supported by Nokia) get the same treatment?
Nobody questioned the usefulness of a Maemo 5 forum created already now to gather all the information and speculation around the Fremantle unstable releases. If you want to contest that go ahead with your proposal in a new thread.

The maintainers of Mer have expressed their will not to push for a Mer forum as for yet and they seem to be happy with the decisions done around the Alternative forum.

I hate to say it (I'm tired and crabby), but it seems we are discriminating against non-Nokia alternatives, despite this being a community owned site?
And I'm tired (but not crabby) of keeping posting the reasons why the decision was made and the solutions we could have for the users and developers around those alternatives if we weren't putting all this time discussing among ourselves (still no sticky in alternatives, still no wiki pages summarizing what 90% of alternative users are looking for).

I'm also tired of telling that I'm doing this as a community member in my free time. I'm the only one that happens to be a Nokia employee involved in this reorganization and the rest of the company is not even aware of these discussions. This is a community discussion and I'm part of it as community member. My contribution in this task is based in my experience as a user and administrator of web forums and communities alike, not in the fact that I work at Nokia.

Do you believe this or not? If not please let me know, it will make the discussion much easier.
 

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