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2009-08-31 , 14:06
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Speaking as one who has lived with an independent DJ for 30 years, talk.maemo.org ain't no independent record store. It's virtually run by Nokia, a major label.
Ah, yes, the conspiracy theories again. Always productive.

Originally Posted by krisse View Post
But regarding the ownership: maemo.org was originally 100% Nokia, but more and more of it has been handed over to the control of the community. I don't know what the percentage is now but it's going down all the time.
maemo.org is 100% in community hands. Period. End of story.

That said, some Nokia employees are members of the community, but their participation is based on that, and not the fact that they're Nokia employees. The conspiracy theorists seem incapable of wrapping their heads around this concept, however, so they see any active participation from these members as Nokia controlling the community.

This, unfortunately, caused Quim to step down from his moderator position. A very unfortunate lose precipitated by a handful of very petty people.

Originally Posted by krisse View Post
Just to give an example, when I did the tablet school site in 2007 I got an email from a Nokia employee saying they'd added me to the maemo.org aggregator. When I emailed Nokia last week asking about whether our unofficial Maemo site could be added to the maemo.org aggregator, they replied that they no longer controlled the aggregator and that I'd have to go through the community channels.
X-Fade is the one in charge of processing Planet requests. There's a nice little link on Planet you can click to request aggregation.
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