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I get what you're saying... but to sit there and say to me that "we're the most open" "we contribute the most code" and "we've embraced open source" and you play by archaic, silent rules that have enraged folks to no end in the past... you simply cannot have it both ways.

Nokia is starting to look like a sham in regards to the open source community. They do not contribute the most code - I'm quite sure Google, Novell, IBM, even Microsoft could argue that. They are not as open as the code they swear they support - each and every iteration of Maemo has some very vital and very closed bits.

"Most open" is highly suspect and I've been quiet about that claim - it seems to make Nokia happy to say it, but not do it. And now... you want to publish a wiki, that could only... well, help your effort of making more folks aware that something is actually going on instead of their silence that has so far yielded three things so far:
MeeGo will not be officially supported by Nokia on a recently released phone
MeeGo has no UX that's been shown outside of a few spy shots
Maemo is effectively dead, the last nail was silently placed in and Nokia has not alerted us
I'm quite sure the above will be seen as hyperbole, or sensationalism... but let's be honest. Where is that wrong?

It doesn't matter who the culprit is. If it's Intel, they need to learn that they just cost some attention from the communities that will support them. If it's Nokia, they never knew the community that supported them. If it's the Linux Foundation... they would have said so - I do believe that one.

But as it stands, Nokia is downright clueless. I don't mind being proven wrong. But so far, the rhetoric from those folks is proving me more right than wrong.
 

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