Thread: Official: No (commercial) MeeGo for the N900
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gerbick
2010-05-25 , 20:27
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Well we can make absolutely sure of that. We're already on track, that's for sure. A community effort like none other.
The problem is that the other community efforts yielded no fruit. I'm not jaded because I want to be. I've become jaded because of prior experience.

Can't blame me for not having high hopes at this moment.

Well if apathy and a subtle antagonism towards those who are trying to put forth effort is what can be expected of the community, I can see why so few people bother to try and help. I wouldn't be shocked if the total number of people who have actually tried to contribute are a tiny, tiny minority of the people who frequent these forums and rarely those who yell at Nokia the loudest.
I'm not yelling at Nokia nor yelling at the kind folks that will grant my device years after Nokia has forgotten me.

I just have very little faith that things will happen in a grand manner; it will be like the Community SSU which is a gradual fix to quite a few things that were bothersome some 2 years after the fact. It's not a full OS upgrade or replacement; but you know, I do like what's being done.

But it required faith for me to stick around and hope that it would have happened. That faith is now lacking in anything else that comes out. Who knows... I might be pleasantly surprised.

Or I might be let down again.

Indeed, MeeGo for the N900 probably is already dead and it is this community and cynically pessimistic commentary from all sides that will kill it.
It'll be dead because nothing before pertaining the entire OS from the community just has never come to fruition. Developers are used to pessimism, cynicism and apathy. I know, I am a dev (not of the quality of some of the devs here) and some people are able to create magic. But the closed bits are indeed in the way.

And the commentary is of no consequence. They're getting paid to do something. It happens, I'll eat my words gladly. But past endeavors haven't amounted to much more than talk.
 

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