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	aflegg	2007-01-24 , 15:16
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Originally Posted by michaelalanjones

Therein lies the problem; you have used that hopefully word again. This same type of teary-eyed plea for hobbyist developers to update free software, (with no incentive to support or enhance it) is very familiar to me, as a former Newton user.

Yeah, petty the poor Linux users in exactly the same situation... oh, no, wait - it works for them. It's a question of motivation and market size. I imagine (from what I know of the Mac OS X software market at the moment), that a lot of Newton software was shareware - and the development environment wasn't free.

Maemo devices attract (in particular) hackers, therefore the software is developed that *they* want, rather than to meet a perceived need in a small marketplace.

I am under the impression that the 770 is already running its last OS version.

Wrong: the 770 is not on its last version: see Ari Jaaksi's comments and the OS 2007 on 770 project.

(Please don't use bizarre colours: not all skins on this site have a dark background).

Should and possibly don't work for me. I don't work in should/could/would/possibly/probably.

Those are my own caveats. I haven't used them, so can't commit to them working, can I?

Does anybody in the world, including Nokia, Hello?, know where I can download a toolkit that I can install, without spending months trying to get it to possibly work, so that I can build the stuff I want?

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/702

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