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I put some collected thoughts together rather than quoting every article individually. Opinions are my own, I am not any authority to state official Nokia opinion.

I see maemo.org evolving as open mobile community, focus on open mobile Qt apps. Mobile Qt apps is common interest with Nokia and this is good reason Nokia to continue sponsoring maemo.org community.

When I said focus on mobile Qt apps, i did not mean that maemo.org should be limited on Qt or apps but there is free slot on FOSS ecosystem and there is real need to have home for mobile Qt apps community.

I explain little more my reasoning.

There are already good home for desktop focus QT project in kde.org, there is no need to have yet an other Android java apps community and there are multiple good communities for desktop linux distros. Qt-project is focusing platform development. We don't have any reason top start competing with other FOSS communities.

I see future on Qt application development than on platform development or app development for Gtk based legacy platform. It is difficult to make good full featured competitive mobile platform. This is still my opinion and I am not willing or any authority to limit maemo.org to apps or Qt only. I am still happy if maemo.org could give home, community or other resources for platform projects.

About same reasoning for focus for Qt apps. There is no need for other Android java apps community or iOS apps community but I am happy to see Qt apps running on other mobile platforms, Blackberry, Android end even iOS.

That's how I also do my personal free time software projects. I also would like to see same code running on my N9 , Android and iPad tablets and my Linux and Mac desktops. I would like see them running also on Rasberry Pi on some day I succeed to get one.

I see speculation about Nokia future useless for maemo.org future. At the moment Nokia has strong interest sponsor Qt related community and I hope that it will have that on future even more. For developer or maemo.org viewpoint, Nokia is just a sponsor. FOSS is FOSS who ever is sponsoring it. Qt has enough inertia as one of main FOSS application frameworks and it will continue to be one what ever Nokia does,

Kate
 

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