It looks like we've already reached "a little bit dangerous".

It'll be an ugly situation if we have to have another repository (or multiple ones) for free software that maemo.org cannot host, and the other repository is not easy to reach through the regular Maemo GUI.

But this seems to be what commercial Linux distributions do, so it's no surprise.

Btw, have a pleasant weekend, zerojay and everyone else

This could suck even more for Android, since the OS is designed to allow removal of apps that they deem to be "dangerous" to the network.

This situation will be good to see if Android actually fires the weapon if pushed on it. There are still ways around it, but the market could be impacted and the one very rare good point about the Android market will be shot to 5hit.

Indeed. I know I keep harping on about Fedora, but it's just the system I'm most familiar with; while emulators and various other potentially troublesome bits of software are excluded from the main distribution there's a very well supported effort at RPM Fusion that includes them, packaged in a way the integrates smoothly with the rest of the OS.

It may be that there's a need for a 'Maemo Fusion', but I expect it makes sense to wait and see for a little while first.

Let's not jump to conclusions yet. I'm sure most of the decisions have yet to be made.

This won't do at all. SNES emulators are basic functionality that people expect on a phone these days

Portrait mode SNES emulators. Don't leave the house without one!

But could forcefully remove apps if the person was running custom firmware?

Can the maemo community sustain maemo.org financially as it is?

If not, respect that this is a goodwill gesture to Nintendo on Nokias part. Their sponsorship of maemo is more important than hosting a few emulators on maemo.org; they are open-source and can be hosted by the maintainers.

Let us keep our priorities straight, ladies and gentlemen.

(edit: ps. Of course i dont like it either, but i am not surprised. , I know some have been wondering why i did not push my emulator builds from 2007-2008 to extras; now you can infer the reason yourselves)

Inducement.

Depends on what was compromised in the framework for the hacked rom. Droid and Cliq to name two have not been hacked- Android team and Motorola took steps to make it more difficult.

For now and maybe "for ever", could be stuck with official versions for most devices. This especially will be an issue as hardware becomes more fragmented and Android hackers become more spread out.

Best bet is to buy an HTC device (not the 7201 chipset ones now) next year, since then you would have XDA forum community on your side to make roms. They only deal with HTC devices.