The council's tasks/responsibilities were broader than just that. ("That" being a voice to Nokia.)
Nokia only owned Nokia proprietary stuff. Most of maemo is FOSS
I didn't see Nokia dictating stuff.
Actually all this changed when Nokia tranferred maemo management and responsibility to community and council, which been long before invention of HiFo and even before Nokia mentioned publicly that they gonna abandon maemo.
Operation of the servers been in councl's responsibility already since ages, guess why http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council#Council_work says "[Council has the responsibility/power for] Hiring of maemo.org staff" (which were the guys of Nemein and other community members doing professional work on server administartion and maintenance in cooperation with Council, _not_ Nokia employees)
there's no software formerly owned by Nokia that gets/got transferred to HiFo or anybody else and is used to run maemo.org (except of a few shell scripts which don't have any copyright in them and are made by nemein and supposed to be public domain)
Applications developed using the Midgard application programming interfaces (API) can be copyrighted and licensed under any terms by their authors, enabling creation of commercial products and services based on the platform.
So what? It doesn't need to be.
Exactly, and that's the way whole community and even Nokia agreed upon,
In a sane company the boss is usally supposed to follow any such suggestions, unless the boss knows stuff the employees are not aware of or missed out on considering.
Oh, and on a sidenote, even company CEO (the owner/HiFo) can get legally sued when they do utterly bad management that does harm to the complete company,
It not been like this with HiFo, why would it be needed for e.V. ?
I don't see why any e.V cannot act exactly like the HiFo concept we publicly discussed and agreed upon. You need a GA? fine! have a 6 members that are authorized by elections forming that GA, and make them promise to always listen to THE MAEMO COMMUNITY and not start own activity abusing their privileged position.
indeed it is, when you want to turn a FOSS community of (depending on the way you count) ~6000 to ~100,000 members into a club of a few dozen
nevertheless while people rise a shitstorm against me for pointing at the problems, I will not contribute and participate any further.
What happens from now on is not in my responsibility any more
(a last time with councilor signature,