Nokia response to forced MyNokia subscription in PR1.2

The Maemo Community Council, an elected body of five representatives for the Maemo community, approached Nokia formally about a response to bug #10366 and the forced subscription of users to their "MyNokia" service - without the possibility of opting out - when upgrading to PR1.2. Nokia have engaged on the bug report, and Quim Gil is raising the issue of the missing opt-out within the Fremantle maintenance programme. However, the official reply is standard sterile Big Corp condescension and hubris: Graham Cobb, a former council member, has been involved in the community discussions around this and has produced a tool, "notmynokia", which can be installed prior to the upgrade to REALLY give the user the "possibility" to receive support messages. The package tricks the system into thinking the user has already accepted the terms, and so does not present a dialogue box of which the choices are, effectively, "yes; I'd love to subscribe to this useful service" and "yes; please subscribe me to this valuable service".

The council goes on to suggest that users who have not yet upgraded investigate the tool before they do so. Further information on "notmynokia" is available later in this issue in the "Applications" section.


MeeGo Handset "Day One" - 30th June

This week should be bringing us the MeeGo Handset "Day One" on Wednesday when the Handset UX will finally be released for public consumption. This is one of the last big pieces of MeeGo still being developed behind closed doors, so hopefully this release signals the end of the "big reveal" mentality that has been plaguing MeeGo and undermining the ceaseless claims of it being an "open project".



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • Nokia response to forced MyNokia subscription in PR1.2
   • MeeGo Handset "Day One" - 30th June
2. Applications
   • Joikuspot for now Available at Ovi Store
   • notmynokia - prevent unopt-outable registration with MyNokia "service" when upgrading to PR1.2
   • Video demonstration of MyPaint with custom brushes
3. Development
   • Setuptools for tranisfex-mobile
   • Nokia Qt SDK 1.0 released
   • Reusable QML components for rapid Qt development
4. Community
   • Proposed guidelines for talk.maemo.org forums
   • MeeGo Conference in November ramping up
5. Devices
   • Pre-Alpha MeeGo for tablets demo
   • Android 2.2 (codenamed "Froyo") on N900
   • VTE V7/iBrowser runs "Maemo" (4?)
6. Maemo in the Wild
   • MeeGo to run on all Nokia N-series devices after N8
7. Announcements
   • Firefox (mobile) 1.1 RC1 available
   • LightMeter application for photographers
   • DrLaunch rotating desktop widget puts icons right way up in portrait
   • New version of MediaBox

Can you explain what that feature is?

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...php#post486709

Thanks. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...038#post469038 is also useful.