On Mar 18, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Abraham Arce wrote: > Hi, > >> Jeremiah, I'm quoting you below but my comment is not directed at you >> personally. There seems to be some logical contradiction here. >> >> If Nokia abandoned Maemo development (supposedly the OS for their >> flagship mobile device) in favour of MeeGo and if MeeGo is not targeted >> at the consumer mobile space then hasn't someone screwed up?
Surely MeeGo is aimed at the device space, whatever that is. Let's just wave our hands and say it is every computer that is not a desktop. That is MeeGo's sweet spot. :P But I guess backporting a lot of development that happens in MeeGo to the N900 is not in Nokia's plans at the moment. I think Maemo will be with us for a while, even if it changes its name from Maemo to Harmattan. That the N900 will fully run Harmattan and not fully MeeGo is not necessarily a logical contradiction. > > Community will do the trick to support whatever phone is out there > including N900, it's not the phone but the microcontroller > architecture driving it, as said by Jeremiah. Yeah, I think this is what I was trying to say. :-) Although the N900 already has an awesome OS in Maemo, "official" support for MeeGo on the OMAP3 will probably not be done by Nokia. I think the community will have to pull down the kernel sources and build them and add in any functionality the community thinks is missing themselves to the N900 if they want a pure MeeGo release. >> >>> From what you've said, surely Nokia don't have a real strategy anymore? > > I am pretty sure Nokia did not launch this project without a real > strategy, they have one for sure and community will support them as > any other open source project out there I think they have an excellent strategy - open up development of their platform and enable quick time to market, innovation and a clear road map. The community will support them as long as they are serious about being open, and I really think they are. I just wish they'd had code available when they launched. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
