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Originally Posted by phi View Post
The community is sponsored by Nokia, is it not?
Depends. The community gets a lot of support from Nokia, but that isn't the same as "sponsorship". Some members of the community get sponsored to travel to events like the summit; other members of the community work for Nokia; other members of the community are self-employed, but paid by Nokia, to work on maemo.org; Nokia pays the bills for maemo.org, but the vast the Maemo community have no direct financial benefit from Nokia.

Eventually, if Maemo and Nokia are to succeed, the community will engulf a much larger group of users...i.e. mass market consumers. If the community and Nokia don't see this, then all of these exercises are irrelevant.
Sorry, but this kind of attitude really annoys me. Do you think the members of the community who've been involved since 2005 don't realise that an increased market penetration will change things? Do you think that the vast majority of us old-timers don't want more users, more developers, more applications and more exposure for Maemo?

It's not like people are going out of their way to make things bad. Improvements are iterative. Things are sub-optimal. So, we look; assess; evaluate and suggest improvements for the next iteration. maemo.org is very much "release-early and release-often".
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