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Originally Posted by Frappacino View Post
If Nokia pulls TMO funding, the TMO repositories will die correct ?
TMO doesn't have repositories.

TMO is talk.maemo.org, the forums that comprise one component of the larger maemo.org. Talk is run from a server Reggie has hosted somewhere; I know not where. I do know the Talk server is not hosted at the same location, or by the same company, as the rest of the maemo.org servers.

Nokia has been covering the hosting cost of the Talk server so Reggie no longer needs to run ads on the site, as he did with InternetTabletTalk. Should Nokia stop providing that money, it may be possible to switch back to ad-based funding, but I do not know if:
  1. the increase in forum activity since the InternetTabletTalk days would make ad-based funding more difficult
  2. the funds the ads brought in during the InternetTabletTalk era were enough to fully cover Reggie's hosting costs even then

And regardless, keeping just t.m.o alive doesn't help maintain all the other services maemo.org provides, such as the repositories.

EDIT: Jaffa was faster. I'll leave this here in case the information on the forum's ad-supported past is useful.
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