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Originally Posted by lma View Post
The main difference is that Intel sell chips, not devices - ie in a moblin vs maemo comparison they are are more analogous to ARM and TI than Nokia. Moblin is important to them because every vendor who stuck Linux on a netbook or MID in the last 2-3 years made a complete hash of it, but they don't care about things like UI "differentiation" and such.
Sorry, I still don't buy into this OEM vs. Consumer differentiation as a justifiable reason for the lack of openness in the "bug fixing" process - once a bug is reported by either an OEM or consumer, what is to stop free and open discussion? Intel achieve it, yet Nokia just don't want to communicate publicly. At all. Period. Maemo Bugzilla is a black hole.

But we can agree to disagree - let's allow Nokia to continue to trot out their "consumer device" excuse while making the most of open source code when at the same time making a complete hash of the supposedly open development process which will only serve to alienate the community they so desperately need if this product/project is going to succeed in the long term, which is by no means certain.

Intel and others will continue to show how commercial open source development can be done right, and will gain a much larger and devoted community as a result.
 

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