Ridiculous, specious argument. If that were the case they'd have opened the damn calendar source in 2009. We don't need this ex post facto crap about why Nokia dropped the ball this time (and the time before that), we need some kind of assurance that Nokia is going to break this half-opened/immediately-abandoned habit it's developing. We're all tired of getting burned.

The framework in question, which the Nokia software strategy (as though this is an entity that can have interests) has lost interest in, is one year old. One year. It was developed behind closed doors, where Nokia had a head start. What possible reason would anyone have to develop for the next big deal? So Nokia can call people like the Instinctiv devs and tell them to get bent and please quit attracting attention to this device we charged $600 for?

The n900 hasn't even been around one day for every megabyte of the SDK. And already we're being told to get stuffed. I'm going to need some serious displays of commitment to any product at all before I'm doing one more lick of work on any stupid Future Magic that Nokia claims is in the works. Meanwhile, the difference between Meego and Maemo is that Maemo is present and it works.

Meego (handset) is a tremendous joke, and I know where the n900 Meego port is going: the same direction as Mer. If you're trying to stuff the platform, well done.


Great. Let's start from scratch. That way by the time a project matures, we can scrap it all and start over when some other internal political clown car gets the pole position. Nokia's going to have to learn to make decisions and stick with them. I know I'm angry that Maemo users (and especially developers) keep getting screwed, but I can only imagine how terrible the Symbian Foundation people must feel.

Of course you don't. You've been taken into the fold. To you, the fact that Qt was cobbled in after-the-fact to our Gtk-based interface *has* to seem cool. If it didn't, you'd be out of a job.