Thread: MeeGo: rebrand / rebirth?
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2010-02-24 , 14:46
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Originally Posted by gomcoite View Post
On a quick word with Arri Jasski, I was told that Maemo is definitely going to become MeeGo and we will not confuse our customers on this issue. I was also hinted that Maemo 6 will become MeeGo eventually.
How exactly will Maemo become MeeGo?

The way I see it is that Maemo Platform is left behind by Nokia and they are moving all their Linux Tablet resources to the new project - it was called Maemo 6 at the begining and rebranded to MeeGo after joining forces with Intel.

All the core technologies unique to Maemo are left behind. Debian core, Hildon GTK+, Clutter based UI, application distribution system, etc.

MeeGo is going to be completely new beast with no connections with Maemo Platform. (Except for a few developers hired by some company that was working on it some time ago.)


P.S. I don't really want to cry here that Nokia is dropping Maemo. Maemo is alive and kicking and I love developing for it. If there will be enough interest, the community is perfectly capable of creating "real" Maemo 6, beeing it Mer or anything else named. I just don't see 'Maemo becoming MeeGo".
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