On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:30 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]> wrote: > > This may be the wrong mailing list to discuss such topics, but I want to > make sure I belong here. I am here because I want MeeGo to be a viable, > competitive commercial product with a solid, sustainable business plan. If > that's *not* the goal of the "MeeGo" community, then I don't believe I > should be here.
Meego.com says that "MeeGo is an open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity." The Meego *community* is an important part of the Meego development process and will only be what we make of it. I think we all want to see Meego deployed by many vendors on a wide variety of devices. We want Meego to be a viable, competitive product. > We are dealing with areas in which there are thousands - maybe hundreds of > thousands - of applicable patents, trademarks and copyrights. Nokia is suing > Apple, Apple is suing HTC, and I've lost track of the other high-profile > lawsuits. I don't think that the Meego community needs to worry about Trademarks. Similarly, as the community doesn't produce any hardware, we probably don't need to worry about hardware patents. Software patents might cause potential issues when we write new code, however there's not much we can do on that topic that isn't already being done by other groups. > Opinions about "free software" and "software patents" aren't relevant to me. The phrases "Free Software" and "Open Source Software" are largely related. Some people use the term "FS" instead of "OSS" to promote the user freedoms found in both FS and OSS. Software patents could quickly become relevant to all of us if someone were to accuse Meego of infringement. Unfortunately it's more difficult to identify and work around software patents than it is to identify and replace non-free code in Meego. > What *is* relevant is whether MeeGo is viable as a business in the > *existing* intellectual property landscape. And "hope" is not a strategy or > a plan. So given what you currently know, do you see Meego as having a viable business plan? _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
