maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Would you miss the Council if it was gone?

	danramos	2010-08-11 , 20:42
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Originally Posted by javispedro

So I believe that enlarging the council to take care of "customer issues" stuff will be problematic, mostly because as I customer, I _paid_ for the device and that should be enough for Nokia to listen to me. "Customers" believe that they've already given enough, and this is clearly reflected in the tone of their complaints. This is of course a good thing; forcing some unpaid fellow to take care of those rivers of pain isn't. The paid ones already have enough of it.

Which is PRECISELY what I started to wonder back when talking about Tex's taking flack lately. I have to wonder whether this was Nokia's plan all along--to set up a "community" council to represent Maemo, with no real power except to take all the flack from customers, developers and everyone else that Nokia just doesn't want to hear from. It's certainly cheaper and more effective than hiring PR or customer service managers.

Originally Posted by Stskeeps

'Mer was precisely killed by its lack of openness, but it's cute to see people say that it was the community's fault for not being involved.'

But enough about that.

"its" being a possessive, ambiguous term which might refer to the subject of the sentence or another subject depending on the context in which it is used.

The "its" you highlighted is exactly why I said I chose a poor sentence structure for being clear. "Its" referred to the architecture.

In any case, it's (i-t, apostrophe, s... a contraction of "it is") still cute to see the community being blamed for "not being involved." It was interesting that you decided to feel defensive that way.

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