Thread: Maemo Weekly News: 3 May 2010
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2010-05-03 , 11:37
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Thanks for another great issue. However I do have a couple of objections to editorial comments
Fair enough.

First of all, citation needed. I don't believe Google is anywhere near being the most used provider, nor do they claim so. I don't have any "official" stats, but it looks like ejabberd may still be the most widely deployed platform, even after jabber.org's migration to M-Link.
I wasn't referring to number of servers, but number of users. Google Talk's implemented front & centre in Gmail; out-of-the box on all Maemo devices and so on.

If not the most widely used Jabber service, it almost certainly is with regards to Maemo.

This has been a known issue with all previous upgrades that touch the modem firmware, and most likely will be with the official PR1.2 release as well.
Indeed, I wasn't trying to suggest otherwise. However, it seems that more people have tried downgrading (as it's unfinished), and there are dire warnings coming out of Nokia.

Someone should also mention that flashing an unverified firmware image downloaded from some random location on the net can be risky. Who's to say that it doesn't contain "additions" that send your account passwords to the publisher or make premium rate calls in the middle of the night?
Indeed. That point is made numerous times in the thread linked to, including by fatalsaint. Repeating it seemed like overkill: sometimes a warning is more clear without further explanation alongside it.

As I've said, volunteering for editing is welcome - and we'll try and do better next time.
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