Thread: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-01-29 , 21:53
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
Did you read my post?
Of course not. Blithely ignoring the contents of other peoples posts is what I'm supposed to do, right? More importantly, your sentence was phrased such that I read it not as a dig against xda-devs but against google (suggesting that because of that incident Android was less open.)

I'm not quite sure what you were getting at with this...I *think* I agree with your second part if I am understanding it right.. Nokia has a more open ecosystem with regards to it being "your" device than either Google or Apple, however Nokia has very little in the way of announcements or customer interaction that I've witnessed.

As far as How much "power" maemo has? It's blatantly obvious to me... it's a GNU/Linux system.
You misread what I said. GA noted that Maemo was more open due to its governance, which is true. The community has a lot of say in what happens. However, how much "power" the community has isn't immediately obvious, and it doesn't appear to be strong enough to quell ridiculous fearmongering regarding the future of the N900.

What you said about Maemo is a given. I wasn't talking about Maemo itself.
Last edited by wmarone; 2010-01-29 at 21:54. Reason: The tags are case sensitive!?