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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Because Intel sells to OEMs, not consumers.
What difference does it make? Moblin and Maemo are both operating systems (with associated applications) that will find their way into the hands of the consumer, either directly or via an OEM.

Intel appear willing to publicly file, and more importantly discuss, the bugs in their product whereas Nokia prefer to keep their dirty laundry a secret and are doing a very good job of ignoring those bugs raised by the community (there is little if any direct input from Nokia developers against publicly filed bugs, many of which are closed as WONTFIX when the respective OS version is end-of-lined).

I can fully understand that some bugs need to be kept secret (ie. security related bugs, or bugs against as yet unanounced products/features, all of which can be handled by existing Bugzilla configuration) but the demand for more involvement is there and has been there for for 3+ years, the management pay lip services and say they want it to happen... but nothing ever does.

If you wanted to work on an open source OS, and had to choose between Moblin and Maemo - which bunch of developers would you rather work with, or alternatively be ignored by?

Last edited by Milhouse; 2009-07-10 at 12:55.
 

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