Thread: Cleaning N900 FUD
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2010-03-01 , 13:45
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
While it is true that Nokia hasn't communicated Harmattan or MeeGo official support plans for the N900, it is also true that all the FUD is not helping the average N900 user following Talk.
So allay the fears, clear up the uncertainty, and remove the doubt.

So no, Nokians here in Talk can't answer to a business question like that. Still we can be helpful discussing whatever technical is relevant and helping removing FUD
The fears are reasonable. Nokia has a pretty clear track record of abandoning the older platforms, and simply saying "Please don't talk about our embarrassing lack of communication" doesn't actually solve the problem. I'm sure we all understand that you can't personally make the call to change this approach, but it is possible to change it, and if Nokia wants the FUD to stop, then someone who can make that call needs to make it.

Fundamentally, there's nothing "technical" that is relevant - this isn't a technical problem, it's a project management and community relations problem. Other commercial providers of free software (and, indeed, proprietary software) manage to do better at those things by not being as secretive as Nokia is. If you'd like their kind of outcome, you need to try their kind of approach.
 

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