[maemo-community] Harmattan & Maemo Community

[From: Sivan Greenberg]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding is that all the relevant technical details about what
> harmattan is are out there in public already, including differences to
> meego. Things that are not known are technically insignificant things
> like how the email application will look like. That is, stakeholders

Does this mean that Harmattan is all open source apart for the closed
UI  ? If this is the only closed source part, then I don't see a
problem in assimilating it in maemo.org. The problem as I see it is in
introducing more closed source parts that would re-generate the feisty
discussions on talk. about new closed parts that are discovered by the
community.

I feel we have walked a good path the end of the day with open
sourcing Maemo, my concern is to keep this somewhat accepted opinion
(I hope). Maemo is now days I hope conceived as a non commercial
product which does good to us as members of the maemo community and
the infrastructure. If this is exactly the case with Harmattan, no
issue then.

-Sivan