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2007-08-15 , 21:50
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Originally Posted by trevarthan View Post
I suppose the selfish part of me starts a project for personal reasons like "Man, I wish I could do X". But then I carry on with it just because it's good fun.
I don't see that as selfish. It is a personal machine, and obviously you are going to want to do your own thing. There is no point trying to do something you have no interest in, unless you are doing it for someone else as a favour (or for profit)

Originally Posted by trevarthan View Post
I don't mind having some proprietary pieces in the OS. My app for example, Kagu, could easily be made to run on any OS with a touch screen. It wouldn't even have to be Linux. So I'm not really wasting my time if maemo goes away.
I have always found that except in really specific circumstances, most software is like that. I have applications that I have written on all platforms, in different languages. I have an application (Lines/LinesFG/Yagol) that I started as a sort of test of a new platform that I always write when going to a new platform. So far I have redone it in C, C++, Obj-C, Obj-C++, C# and Java on the PocketPC, Palm, Mac & TabletPC and am now set up for doing it on the 770!

Originally Posted by trevarthan View Post
What I don't appreciate is being kept out of the Chat, Voice, and Mail APIs. Where's our IRC module for the Chat app? Where's our hooks to make pidgin the default Chat client? And Sylpheed the default Mail client?
Well, I am new to the platform but did wonder about that. With the presence menu on the left, I wanted to add newsgroups which I was currently using claws mail for, but there didn't seem a way. That seemed odd.

Originally Posted by trevarthan View Post
Why does Canola continue to undermine my work by making new completely proprietary releases?
Canola is a huge de-motivator for me.
Now I look at your application, I can see that it would be! Is Canola anything to do with Nokia?

Originally Posted by trevarthan View Post
And what is with Nokia's refusal to make OSS applications the default? Why are they compelled to reinvent the wheel? I just don't understand their game plan.
Well, I don't really know how nokia do things, as it is a new area for me other than a few java things on my N73, but maybe they don't actually *have* a game plan?!