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2009-11-20 , 12:21
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Originally Posted by ewan View Post
The topic is non-free, closed-source, dead-end proprietary software. The point is that it's hardly a loss to the (free, open, community, etc.) Maemo if app developers are pushed in the direction of submitting to Maemo, rather than casually carrying on with proprietary business-as-usual.
The point is that people like code177 want to be able to write and sell dead-end proprietary software, and that it's a bad business decision by Nokia to shut out these kind of developers.

I agree that it would be better if everyone starts submitting to the Maemo repository, but many developers want to make money with the software they write. So it's a legitimate claim.