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Originally Posted by jph View Post
quim, I never (!) wanted to blame you or the maemo team! i thought it was visible that I am only angry because of the german nokia care (who answered at my question this morning, your answer came last evening - i directly forwardet their mail to you at I think 9am), not because of nokia at all. it makes me angry that i didn't get any information from the german team except a very, very strict prohibition, the finish team (/ you) on the other hand cares more than your job demands. this is what i expect from a community-near team and i'm glad to see that the misbehavior from the german team was just a exclusion. and well - i would never run an illegal website, especially not if i have the possibility to contact the right persons directly through the community...
So let's get some things right. Please open a new thread if you want to discuss further.

- The German Nokia Care is just as part of Nokia as we are. Actually they probably told you nothing wrong, just a conservative interpretation of the Maemo trademark. Which, on the other hand, I kind of expect from Nokia care: an organization that deals with customers mainly with problems with their devices. By the way I haven't received their email. I do undestand German and Peter's surname is Schneider.

- We are not "the Finnish team". We are the Maemo (global) team.

- About the topic itself: we want to be strict not having "Maemo" in applications' names (e.g. Mapper instead of Maemo Mapper, something that is a good idea anyway if you want to have a cross-platform approach). But we don't want to be strict with theuse of "Maemo" in websites, blogs, etc. So as long as you don't misbehave you won't get in trouble with Nokia.

In reality, if someone starts misbehaving from a "Maemo something" website probably the trouble will come first from the Maemo community. All this is good with a sustainable and sensible trademark and brand prestige approach.
 

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