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2009-11-24 , 10:57
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Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
That reasoning still doesn't make sense. If I need it for development and it breaks, it is end of development. Not good.

Or maybe you meant - DDP is currently targeted to big companies with plenty of cash who will simply get another device or has more of them. This is a bug and changes are needed. If Nokia focuses on open source now it makes more sense to support independent developers.
You can blame me for not having taken into consideration this aspect of the guarantee. Now it's too late for changing it. Next time we will do it better.

As explained before, you can't measure our support to independent developers from the perspective of this DDP alone. It is one action within many. We have got devices for developers pushing apps to Extras, for the Maemo Summit participants, for participants of training sessions. We have also devices for open source collaborators in upstream projects and there is still http://wiki.maemo.org/Fremantle_Developer_Device_Queue

If you are aware of other mobile platforms offering a better treatment to open source developers please share the URLs.
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