No rant or FUD here...

I just wanted to know what the distinction is in hopes that it wasn't a trend that ultimately slows or stops development of existing threads or more importantly, affects the decisions of the developers of even newer apps from participating in our forum.

The flip side of all the recent discussions about MeeGo and the N900 are the statements that the "N900 is a reference device" and "If it doesn't work on the reference device it isn't promoted within MeeGo" (or some such).

Because of this, I believe that if anyone developing for MeeGo that wants early access to a group of people for testing and feedback who already have these "reference devices" in hand, the forums at maemo.org are the place to go. (It is something I would like to promote at least among my small group of friends and colleagues.)
...that is, unless we indicate we will be turning off the lights soon.


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To all:
Prompting for clarification (IMHO) before rumors start is preventing FUD, not promoting it.

@ Textrat:
If you say I am "misleading", am motivated simply because I'm "picking fights", or even propose that I am a child molester or suttin' (which you did not, BTW, Thanks! ) and then close a thread before I can rebut as you recently did do in another discussion; then for some, I may be perceived as being just that.

However, I will not continue that discussion in another thread unless the statements that I quote (and can be easily referenced) are relevant in some way as I believed they were in my OP.

To be fair, I realize that it is difficult to maintain continuity in a discussion given the many hats you wear around here. It is equally difficult from a members standpoint.

I for one do not know if I am responding to a disgruntled forum participant (as we all can be sometimes ), a Forum Moderator (who I believe requires a higher level of regard because of the decisions they must make sometimes), or a Council Member who may or may not represent my views as a member of this organization.

Perhaps Council can prepare a "Best Guess statement" thread in the community section that will give all members a better "feeling" as to where Maemo.org will be in 3, 6, and 12 months from now.

I also realize that this may be difficult to do but I'm also thinkin' that overcoming that difficulty may be why some had called this the council term that may be the "most important" one.