Thread: Maemo Missteps, your thoughts?
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
To answer this question specifically: End-users.

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To an end-user.. "community" support is not the same as official support. Even if (which hasn't yet happened) the end result is the same, it's still not equivalent to them.
OK, that's a useful clarification of your position, and certainly, I think that if I bought this device as an end-user, I might feel a bit burned. But I did my research, knew the platform wasn't in maturity, but also that it offered exactly what I wanted of it.

But, do you equally think that those non-technical end-users would be flashing a totally new OS without knowing what it was? Because regardless of commercial support status, you aren't going to get an OTA update from Debian to Slackware.

[then again, perhaps we should just leave this, as it's getting a bit offtopic]
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