Originally Posted by danramos

I think part of the problem is that "fragmentation" has become a dirty word instead of looking at it pragmatically for what it is without immediate prejudice. The problem here is that one person's "branching' or "forking" is another person's "fragmenting."

Personally, I am not at all opposed to "fragmenting" things if it's done appropriately.

Originally Posted by govprog

a new tag has been added.
*tag award.

Originally Posted by danramos

WHOO!! Achievement unlocked!

Originally Posted by wmarone

Your argument is completely off the wall, I honestly cannot follow it.

Originally Posted by wmarone

But you insist on attacking people from a point of view that has no real relevance on what is (or presumably once was) a highly technical end-user forum.

Originally Posted by Funklord

The talk about "linux is fragmented" just proves this point, it's pure marketing talk that spreads like wildfire, with no actual proof, and how can it when such a statement is so vague.

Originally Posted by Qrchack

Yes u can't and this is your problem



Yes!! You finally get it It took you two pages of reading to understand what I want to say.
I said, or tried to say (writing in english makes it more complicated to me) that maemo sank, and i bet meego will, because YOU made it closed platform. BECAUSE YOU DON"T GIVE A F U C K about ppls needs. You closed it not from a programmers point of view, but from a customer point of view. So Nokia understood, that there is no point in investing in a platform, which won't attract new CUSTOMERS (do i need to write a definition of this word? Well i will write the cynic one: It is a guy from whom a company can suck money). The great (again - no irony here) linux, maemo, open source generally speaking community will allways support itself. You have specyfic needs, very diffrent then the needs of averages. But this makes the platforms, in which such community is involved, or "worse" - on which they are based, useless for making money.

Nokia understood that, nokia was disapointed. I bet, that when they tried to put n900 on wider scale market they thought - hey, we gave Them the best platform ever created, and the decent hardware. So let's just sit down and watch They make apps and we will earn $$$. But u didn't. What You did, was write an apps which was USEFULL, not EYECANDY and FUN. - you wan't attract an average customer by that.

Originally Posted by Qrchack

Yes u can't and this is your problem



Yes!! You finally get it It took you two pages of reading to understand what I want to say.
I said, or tried to say (writing in english makes it more complicated to me) that maemo sank, and i bet meego will, because YOU made it closed platform. BECAUSE YOU DON"T GIVE A F U C K about ppls needs. You closed it not from a programmers point of view, but from a customer point of view. So Nokia understood, that there is no point in investing in a platform, which won't attract new CUSTOMERS (do i need to write a definition of this word? Well i will write the cynic one: It is a guy from whom a company can suck money). The great (again - no irony here) linux, maemo, open source generally speaking community will allways support itself. You have specyfic needs, very diffrent then the needs of averages. But this makes the platforms, in which such community is involved, or "worse" - on which they are based, useless for making money.

Nokia understood that, nokia was disapointed. I bet, that when they tried to put n900 on wider scale market they thought - hey, we gave Them the best platform ever created, and the decent hardware. So let's just sit down and watch They make apps and we will earn $$$. But u didn't. What You did, was write an apps which was USEFULL, not EYECANDY and FUN. - you wan't attract an average customer by that.