Thread: [Council] "Chromium" removed from maemo.org repositories
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2010-06-13 , 16:58
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
Perhaps this is an opportunity to consider the benefits of having maemo.org governance be more independent. It would be to Nokia's benefit because they would not be liable for the actions of maemo.org.
As I said, it's already raised this and discussions have started:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=20

It would be to our benefit because we could make our own decisions.
The process here was very open and collaborative with the council. Obviously, I wasn't on the council during the Nintendo affair, but I get the impression Nokia have learnt how to improve their collaboration with the community in these circumstances.

Indeed, if anyone was lacking, it was the council in responding in a timely manner: if we can't act professionally on these very important issues (certainly important to Nokia), we lose credibility.

...and this Chromium issue may raise the interest of Nokia in accomplishing the transition at the present time.
Whoever is running the show, ultimately someone - and very possibly an individual - is going to get a C&D letter like the one Nokia got. Unless we built up a large legal fund (or had lawyers willing to work pro bono) the result on this Chromium decision would've been the same: remove the package as an act of good faith whilst you try to have a dialogue to reach an amicable settlement.
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