Missing emulators will be back at maemo.org

[VDVsx]

As some know, we removed some emulators from maemo.org due to a legal dispute between Nokia and Nintendo. The dispute was not related to the emulators itself, but since the maemo.org infrastructure *is* paid for by Nokia, we decide to remove the emulators to avoid further problems.

This decision was made by Nokia together with the council and the developers involved, but we fail to communicate the decision in the first place to the community, was a very messy situation in a very grey area, and we were all a bit afraid to create more buzz. On behalf of the council I sincerely apologize for this lack of communication.

After some evaluation and discussion we decide to put the emulators back at maemo.org since there's no copyright infringement in the emulators code.

Maemo is intended to be an open platform, and we not intend to do any censorship in the applications available as long they meet the required Q&A, but the maemo.org infrastructure is sponsored by Nokia, we can't risk losing it.


On Behalf of the Maemo Community Council,

Valério Valério
Maemo Community Council Chair

[bandora]

Originally Posted by VDVsx

As some know, we removed some emulators from maemo.org due to a legal dispute between Nokia and Nintendo. The dispute was not related to the emulators itself, but since the maemo.org infrastructure *is* paid for by Nokia, we decide to remove the emulators to avoid further problems.

This decision was made by Nokia together with the council and the developers involved, but we fail to communicate the decision in the first place to the community, was a very messy situation in a very grey area, and we were all a bit afraid to create more buzz. On behalf of the council I sincerely apologize for this lack of communication.

After some evaluation and discussion we decide to put the emulators back at maemo.org since there's no copyright infringement in the emulators code.

Maemo is intended to be an open platform, and we not intend to do any censorship in the applications available as long they meet the required Q&A, but the maemo.org infrastructure is sponsored by Nokia, we can't risk losing it.


On Behalf of the Maemo Community Council,

Valério Valério
Maemo Community Council Chair

Great! Now the million dollar question is.. when?

[VDVsx]

Originally Posted by bandora

Great! Now the million dollar question is.. when?

As soon as the developers upload them, some are already on their way to the repositories AFAIK.

[bandora]

Originally Posted by VDVsx

As soon as the developers upload them, some are already on their way to the repositories AFAIK.

Very nice! Thanks!

[therock]

oh that is so nice.. not the emu thing but the "not intend to do any censorship in the applications available as long they meet the required Q&A"

[drm]

Nice news.
I sincerely don’t understand nokia position regarding maemo. They have a huge support for nokia n900 in all the reviews and they failed miserably in distribution. Here in Portugal they put something like 50 phones for sale after a huge advertisement campaign in every street.
By the number of downloads I would say that they sold 12000 worldwide by now. What a disgrace…

[Hotshot]

This is great news!!!

[Dave999]

awesome...Thx! snes is always best on the N900

[VDVsx]

Some of the emulators already landed in Extras, others are still in -testing, please test&vote them.

[krisse]

Originally Posted by drm

By the number of downloads I would say that they sold 12000 worldwide by now. What a disgrace…

The number of downloads is only for Extras. Extras is disabled by default on most versions of the firmware, so most N900 users don't know about it and cannot access it by default.

That's why I did a tutorial telling people about how to activate Extras, and you'll notice the very first comment is from someone who didn't know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMOCbEWQ1Jg