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	Nathraiben	2010-07-04 , 01:35
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Originally Posted by gerbick

Harsh. Love your way or dealing with it though, you seem unfazed.

Automatically comes with working for customers who constantly try to belittle your efforts in order to beat down the price.

Apache alone destroys that. But the problem with "free software" is when it goes up against corporate software that's been established for a long time and falls a bit flat in some areas... for me, that would be Photoshop versus the GIMP's and the rest. Sure, they're usable, but not it's not the same. But... it's not supposed to be. In some areas, GIMP is better, in some others, it's not. But I wouldn't say "worthless".

Guess that's one of the reasons so many people still believe in free software being inferior - they expect it to be an exact copy of commercial software when it actually has the power to be so much more than that.

If the lack of developers is the problem then... then the community won't polish Maemo 5. It needs to be said now. I can deal with reality better than fantasy.

To be true, yes, there's a certain probability that this will never happen.

But I wouldn't give up all hope yet, as there's an even higher probability at certain developers growing bored of writing simple applications and looking for new challenges. Challenges that providing good alternatives for the closed source parts might provide.

This is Linux after all, and Linux developers are quite different from other app developers. They are bound to hack the core system after a while.

I blame Nokia's push to the "it's the newest, most open, blah blah for developers" push that they got going on now that makes competent developers abandon prior iterations of their "open software" the truly depends on the closed bits way too ****ing much.

Not sure why they think that osbourning their devices over and over again is such a great marketing strategy. But I see it as an important task of this very community to get the word out there that Maemo is NOT dead just because the original initiator has lost interest in it.

Especially not with Qt being the future of MeeGo, which actually means we'll get lots and lots of applications that can be used with Maemo, too.

Fix that and people will fix the stuff Nokia can't be arsed to fix and then take that expertise to the next OS at their own leisure as opposed to always chasing the Nokia carrot and never fulfilling the full potential of any OS - past or present.

That's my take. You... keep developing. You're an asset and lifeline to this OS, community and agenda.

I'm pretty sure that's what most of the current developers plan to do, since they already know Maemo's potentials. It's really just the not-yet developers I'm concerned about since they might be thrown of by the current state of this community (aka all the negativity floating around right now).

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