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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Yes, so the fact there's a Moblin-derived configuration shows that Moblin is providing the base of the technology, doesn't it?
That's only one part of the story. If someone wants to go into deeper analisys, these are the things to look at:

- Technology selections: who leads the development and maintenance of each component selected. You will find some technologies "brought" or "pushed" basically by Intel, others basically by Nokia and then others misc.

- Involvement in "others misc". Nokia and Intel are lead or strong developers in several community projects with very diverse copyrights and contributors.

- Integration. There is a merit integrating fast and well in the open. Intel has a good infra in place based on OBS and concentrating in x86. This is what you are seeing evolving to MeeGo. Wait for releases and ARM support to see more clearly the Nokia contribution there.

- Developer tools. There is a merit providing a good developer environement and tools. Nokia contributes mainly Qt and Web Runtime tools, Intel has good tools as well, more focused on device manufacturers.

And sujrely there are other areas of contribution. And at the end I believe the contributions from each project are overall balanced. And this is a reason why these two giants could actually agree onh something concrete.