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Maybe the 'smartphone' lobby was getting frightened of 'the momentum'?
Skype this, Video chat that, tether your way beyond the cell phone choke hold,
How oddly funny that whole 'repository' story involved a key letter 'i'? ...and then 'repostory'?...or was that 'repo story'?

Not to stir the conspiracy angle, but I get your point in question.

The 'i' movement is huge with mega millions involved. One could wonder.
For 'i' is truly a self-serving reference with a Noah's Flood' of me-too products as tag alongs.

The whole shmozzle seemed very timely to me and a number of pros I know thought it was pretty screwy and not acceptably explainable.

O.k. O.k. one step further. lol A chicken and egg question. Which came first? The N810...that Wired mag placed as a #2 on their Xmas list? ...Or a product I stumbled on from Fujitsu called a U810? Seems like an oddly similar play of product numbers, don't ya think?

And the money mongers cried: 'don't let those open source...freewarezy types flourish..darn it all...or we are in trouble and might be revealed!'

O.k. humourous ponderences aside, brighter programmers and web guys must HONESTLY be wondering wtf?

Anyway, i voted 5stars. Maybe we could move it in the top?

Gosh from that brief little muse of mine, I see a thread about the iphone optimized sites etc. Big effort behind all that.

Accessing hidden iphone websites and there are Google apps for iphone as well.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...2&goto=newpost

So, apparently we can access all that for quite a different product hardware price point and also enjoy much more 'freedom' including a bigger screen as well.

Anyone check the price point for that Fujitsu U810 called 'Lifebook'? Big difference froman N800 or the new N810.
Pleeeeease, what a wrip off of the Palm Lifedrive name play and further copy cat of the N810 product name from Nokia.

Whats maybe behind the curtain of all of this? A little tug of war perhaps? iPhone wants to rule it all? Fujitsu a little jealous of 'the lil Nokia that could'? Who really knows why people might play dirty, but hey if it smells like poo, then Okam's Razor may prevail. and IT IS Poo.

Here is something to consider in light of the hacking consideration. I am no programmer at all, so I am merely pondering the author of our thread here and his point.

I found this: Is Hidden Open Source Code Putting Your Apps at Risk?

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/I...isk-61202.html

Sigh. I miss the original maemo wiki.

The article is largely FUD concerned with proprietary server products that aren't being updated, as far as I can tell.

+1

the amount of FUD being astroturfed by Satan in Redmond™ is just amazing!

:-)

FUD is all they have besides warehouses full of lawyers...

from the latest email news from "ferenc" at http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...ry/013972.html


He says in his letter of explanation:

Beside that I am pretty sure we also got some DOS attacks at the same time, which we clearly see at garage.maemo.org. I never went and
checked logs at stage.maemo.org, but I suspect that we were hit on all
fronts. We have taken the necessary measures to avoid these things in
the future.


So, whoever thinks that it is all fare play and everyone is nice in business, needs to give their head a shake.

My contemplation earlier was not so off the mark as a consideration of possible reasonings of the somewhat anomalous behaviors of the site and the various efforts of downloads stalling and doing strange things ending in dead-ends and no installs.

I don't understand the post above.

EDIT: ok, I think I got it: you're referring to the DOS attacks? I doubt that was business though. Maybe someone with a personal grudge against Nokia, maemo or the devices...