Well, now it is made public, after a brief period of secrecy, that - surprise! - MeeGo will refuse to host packages at meego.com from the individual developers and open source community that were asked, for the better part of a year to embrace and support Meego. Yes, you heard that right. The sad situation was rather unofficially announced by lbt here: http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Apps/Problem_Statement
Unfortunately, the problem has not been succinctly stated and rather vaguely blamed on patents, so it is hard to address the possible solutions and effect. But the decision by LF seems to be a sucker punch to the kidneys of small and individual developers. I was reminded of a debate perpetuated not long ago by those who had espoused the relative openness of MeeGo and encouraged maemo developers to leave Maemo for MeeGo: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=73896 http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1029051&postcount=114 In keeping with its tradition of openness, talk.maemo.org served as the forum for the debate, even including those who criticize the free-wheeling nature of talk.maemo.org. Like most of council, I largely stayed out of the debate then. But, in my opinion, the maemo p.o.v., the value of maemo and the need for uncompromising openness was rather ably argued by woody14619 http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1028548&postcount=104 http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1040369&postcount=148 MeeGo will take mobile linux to new places and should be supported for that. But dare to say that leaving nothing but corporate run app stores is an unnatural and unsustainable state of affairs for an open source project. The proposed alternative site (apps.formeego.com) seems to be a corporate-sponsored site from our own long lost friend, Nokia. A maemo.org run by the community would never make such a decision as that announced today. To maemo and other mobile linux developers, to those of you who support open source, those of you who have said maemo is dead, and those of you who have accepted "free" N950s - think carefully, think twice, and please continue to support maemo.org
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