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#66
Well, people. After an disappointing e-mail contact with the regional (german) Nokia Care team I have to tell you that the opening of a german (or other) category in this board (talk.maemo.org) will be the only (!) legal way to start a german community. No one else than Nokia / the maemo team is allowed to use the trademark name "maemo" in public communities and especially no one is allowed to start self-financing websites / communities with Maemo as main topic. I just wanted to do this and include google adsense ads to help me financing a community like this but after I read Nokias answer to my question whether this would be legit (even if remaining ad income is donated to maemo.org developers) I'm scared about posting the word "maemo" on any website containing ads. Could be even dangerous to say the word "maemo" while watching tv ads.. *scnr*

So all in all - maemo isn't that open source it tends to be. A open source software with a trademarket name and a company which doesn't want to have free marketing generated by regional fan- / techwebsites? Damn. Trademark is okay but a total declining of non-officiall communites? Looks like Nokia will earn enough money when they begin to let the lawyers smash existing (illegal!) fansites... that's it, commercialism in perfection, thanks GNU/Linux ! ByeBye maemo, be carefull Qt and sorry to the guys at debian for letting a company sell your free and good work without sharing the same ideology..

Last edited by jph; 2009-11-05 at 14:16.