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2007-08-15 , 16:50
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Originally Posted by Modulok View Post
The reason I will not develop software for the ITs is that I cannot develop for a Linux distro like Maemo. The rise and fall of this distro is controlled by closed software and hardware. Why should I use my free time for developing software which will run as long as Nokia wants to. Its just a matter of my philosophic viewpoint .

Scratchbox is installed and I also have compiled some software but since I know that maemo is a trimmed distro my motivation has reached level 0.
That is actually an interesting and -- IMHO -- quite valid point against developing for the IT. Nokia has broken backwards compatibility once completely already, and once partially, not to mention breaking hardware compatibility as well. In all those occasions Nokia simply expected developers to do most of their work again -- period.

If nothing else, this shows that indeed the community is not in control of Nokia's tablets and, if I were an OSS developer, this alone might make me run for the OpenMoko hills.