Thread: I hate the name "MeeGo"
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-04-07 , 01:49
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#13
Originally Posted by MoJo View Post
It isn't that they couldn't go with either Maemo or Moblin, is that they didn't which is a clear difference.
Well, MeeGo -isn't- Moblin and it -isn't- Maemo. It's something else and as such needs a distinct name.

Shelving two good brands instead to use a crappy name that aside this here board most don't know about. Is not only risky, but says a lot about where Nokia and Intel position this here OS.
Developing your own Linux distribution is risky. Intel and Nokia are going out on a limb in combining the two to make a single OS out of them. That too is risky, but less so than previously. And the fact that two big names in technology are backing it give it a lot more credibility for 3rd parties than each had on its own. On top of that it's being led by the Linux Foundation, which is about as close to the core of the Linux community as you can get.

Is it wrong to retain Maemo as the name and use MeeGo as a compliance brand?
Because after Harmattan there will be nothing on Nokia phones that bears any resemblance to Maemo as it stands today. It will be something completely different (but hopefully just as open, if not moreso.)