Thread: How Nokia could have eliminated about 75% of its problems
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lardman is offline lardman
2011-02-27 , 11:08
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Originally Posted by icebox View Post
Yes but this work couldn't have started earlier. You only start this when it's clear that nokia's support ended. If you start work on a community ssu and nokia releases a different one you will end up with incompatibilities.
I think it's more an issue of wanting to know you're not going to waste your time fixing or re-writing something that will then be fixed in an upcoming Nokia release.

Once we know that there's no more support and/or that given bugs are not going to get fixed (and additionally that there's no way the source will be released) it makes more sense to start writing replacements.

I agree though that it's a shame it took so long - we all sat around waiting for an awfully long time, wondering whether things would be fixed or source released so we could do it ourselves.