| attila77 |
2011-06-12 10:55 |
Re: Should MeeGo developers continue to publish info on this forum for maemo users (wrt Nokia device support)?
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Originally Posted by benny1967
(Post 1026539)
Maemo, MeeGo, it's all the same. The idea of having a free software based desktop operating system power a mobile device. The name changed, MeeGo seems a bit more open than Maemo... But who knows, if Intel and Nokia hadn't joined forces (?) for MeeGo, Maemo 6 (or Maemo 7 by now, most probably) could be technically what MeeGo is today.
I just see MeeGo as Maemo 7. Different name, same technology, same idea. So yes, please keep the information coming to maemo(7).org
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There is a very important difference, and it's not package formats or technology I'm talking about. It might be more open source-wise (it has the (dis)advantage of not being tied/developed with a single vendor product in mind), but focus and community-wise it's a completely different matter, and (IMHO) a huge step backwards compared to what maemo.org is/was (if I want to draw parallels, I'd say we're closer to a parliamentary monarchy, while meego.com is a feudal system with a BDFL approach). The project goals/workings (still) have not been properly communicated, and IMHO this is one of the reasons MeeGo reception is somewhat polarized - there are still plenty of people who don't quite grasp what is MeeGo and how it affects them.
In that sense, I'm glad to hear news about MeeGo, esp the (soon to be CE) DE and the bigger-impacting technological changes, but I wouldn't lull myself into MeeGo itself being (or looked at as) all that much 'closer' to the NIT lineage than, say, Ubuntu or NITdroid is. |
