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	danramos	2011-03-15 , 19:07
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Originally Posted by attila77

Let's get a things straight. Maemo.org does not represent Nokia (or the other way around) - it's an enthusiast community of various people, some users, some developers, some Nokians, some students, some unaffiliated, etc. People, however, often take this confrontational stance when they 'discover' a Nokian here - why did Nokia do this or that, why is something (not) working one way or the other, or go into writing these 'goodbye' letters and more often than not it ends up in useless mudslinging/flaming. This "but why can't I express my dissatisfaction" I never quite got. You can do it of course, but why are you surprised that people talking about how the Force sucks will be booed on a Star Wars Convention ? If you have an issue with whatever happens in SW or Star Trek, you should address Paramount or George Lucas, not the fans/people/communities involved in the respective 'platforms'.

That said, there ARE official Nokia forums (and of course Nokia care) where people are free to go to and unleash all their insight. See

http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/...ces/bd-p/maemo

or

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...20-Maemo-MeeGo

etc, etc.

Let's get another thing straight, then, the website is named talk.MAEMO.org, the operating system is MAEMO and Nokia communicates with the MAEMO community through the MAEMO Community Counsel which mainly communicates through talk.MAEMO.org. If this is the community for MAEMO (the operating system) and Nokia really isn't paying attention to their customers on their own forums... it shouldn't really be a surprise people come to talk.MAEMO.org to ask why did Nokia's MAEMO does this or that, why is something (not) working one way or the other, or go into writing these 'goodbye' letters.

Thanks for making the Nokia end of things clear, but I think the MAEMO end of things are far less clear to new people as well as long-time users. As I recall, Nokia was footing the bill for the forum too. Sooooo that makes it even MORE confusing.

By the by: As I recall, after Episode I: The Phantom Menace came out, there seemed to be a LARGE, seemingly majority, of fans that came out to say that the explanation of The Force in the movie SUCKED. It didn't seem that they were booed at cons and it DID reach Lucas' ears, as I recall, and he's avoided that element of the explanation ever since. Perhaps you have a better analogy?

To clarify: I'm expressing to you what the customers coming here might probably rightfully be thinking when they come here to complain and criticize. Nokia certainly has a communication problem, don't they?

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Last edited by danramos; 2011-03-15 at 19:22.

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