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Originally Posted by krisse View Post
All I'm saying is the people on maemo.nokia.com aren't quite as free to express their opinions as people on other sites, because they are paid by Nokia and they would have signed strict NDAs regarding unannounced products.
To clarify, maemo.nokia.com is a product marketing site from Nokia itself. It does not appear to have any outside content at all. By "here" I mean *.maemo.org sites. Some people maintaining these sites are in fact paid by Nokia to maintain these sites, but not to astroturf for Nokia. Other people are Nokia engineers who are also paid by Nokia to develop Maemo. It is not like switching to a different site will make them go all critical of their employer or something. Yet the third category is a bunch of diehard fans who will defend Maemo no matter what. I doubt they are actually paid by Nokia though.

So, I am still not clear what is this thing that I (or any of the above people) cannot say at maemo.org but can say at some other site.

PS: In spite of the above criticism, I also think that it is a bad idea to concentrate all Maemo-related resources under the same maemo.org umbrella, with the uniform design and strict style guidelines enforced by staff. It all sounds too much like putting all eggs into the same basket, with well known consequences.