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2009-11-20
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#92
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Originally Posted by range
The topic is commercial software.
Ummm. As said before: There are the maemo.org repositories for your applications. OVI is not needed to publish your applications for this device and never has been for pusblishing applications for devices which came before the N900.
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2009-11-20
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Originally Posted by SubCore
The topic is non-free, closed-source, dead-end proprietary software. The point is that it's hardly a loss to the (free, open, community, etc.) Maemo if app developers are pushed in the direction of submitting to Maemo, rather than casually carrying on with proprietary business-as-usual.
The topic is commercial software.
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2009-11-20
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Originally Posted by attila77
i thought extras is gonna be enabled by default in production devices?
Then, when/if you unsuspectingly click an application's download button, suddenly you get the elusive Extras repo enabled in the background.
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2009-11-20
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Originally Posted by SubCore
Even though there is a big push for Ovi, don't forget that you CAN distribute commercial software through the non-free section of Extras or private repositories. Nokia worked hard to avoid this, and for a good reason, but if the Ovi team can't get their act to together RSN, that's exactly what's going to happen.
The topic is commercial software.
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2009-11-20
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Originally Posted by ewan
The point is that people like code177 want to be able to write and sell dead-end proprietary software, and that it's a bad business decision by Nokia to shut out these kind of developers.
The topic is non-free, closed-source, dead-end proprietary software. The point is that it's hardly a loss to the (free, open, community, etc.) Maemo if app developers are pushed in the direction of submitting to Maemo, rather than casually carrying on with proprietary business-as-usual.
I agree that it would be better if everyone starts submitting to the Maemo repository, but many developers want to make money with the software they write. So it's a legitimate claim.
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2009-11-20
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Hmm maybe if the solution is a 3rd party store where developers put their apps collectively then someone can create an app store interface and put it into extras? That way if people who don't know about maemo.org but have extras will see a program called "app store"
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They're maemo and MeeGo...
"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
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2009-11-20
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If the Ovi Store fails due to the lack of insight in policies like this, then in my opinion, it deserves to fail.
It is strange how such policies reflect a sense of grandeur that IMO is not something Ovi can claim a right for, yet.
It is strange how such policies reflect a sense of grandeur that IMO is not something Ovi can claim a right for, yet.
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2009-11-20
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Originally Posted by mrojas
I think the (probably obsolete) dicho for this is "Too big for their britches." (pants)
If the Ovi Store fails due to the lack of insight in policies like this, then in my opinion, it deserves to fail.
It is strange how such policies reflect a sense of grandeur that IMO is not something Ovi can claim a right for, yet.
Mention was made of distributing through the non-free repo. How would that actually work for commercial software?
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Classic example of arbitrary Nokia decision making. Couldn't just fallback to the no brainer of tagging with lat/lon if network isn't accessible, could you Nokia?
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Bottom line, I'm not suggesting anything in the previous post, just guessing Nokia's motivation and next moves.