<font color="#ff0000">My comments below,<br><br>Rob<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Randall Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:texrat@ovi.com">texrat@ovi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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>From: Sunny B <<a href="mailto:sunnyb7532@gmail.com">sunnyb7532@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<div class="im">>Subject: Re: Election announcement article (formatting & questions)<br>
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</div><div class="im">>Alan,<br>
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>You are the one who started a thread called "The end is coming...". In<br>
it, you said "the maemo community is (almost) nothing without Nokia" and argued that "the best thing the Maemo community can do over the next<br>
year<br>
and a half is to transition to the MeeGo community." And you have argued<br>
against people at <a href="http://maemo.org" target="_blank">maemo.org</a> organizing themselves, voluntarily. I don't know if you<br>
are the "primary person" or not, but hey you did put yourself out there.<br>
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</div>I'd like to defend Alan here.<br>
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First I'd like to move past finger pointing. That's divisive and unnecessary. <font color="#ff0000">Umm, it was Alan's own email that went beyond the "some people" and pointed to himself. If anything was divisive, it was probably the proposal to "transition" and shut down <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a>. The "people are unfairly criticizing me" email was unnecessary, as I pointed out, the criticism has been of the opinion and there's been no name calling or finger pointing at Alan, etc.</font><br>
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Second, he's essentially correct in his judgment: Maemo the OS has a limited life without Nokia's backing, assuming it will never be released 100% to the wild (and I believe that to be a safe assumption but would love to be proven wrong). A general transition to MeeGo *does* make sense, and even Cordia should be able to fit. <font color="#ff0000">That you agree with the opinion is besides the
point. </font><font color="#ff0000">Alan's email was about more than whether his opinion was correct.</font><br>
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Finally, I have seen nothing from him arguing "against people at <a href="http://maemo.org" target="_blank">maemo.org</a> organizing themselves, voluntarily". I think that's a leap. What I see is him disagreeing with are ASPECTS and some suggestions, NOT the core activity per se. Knowing Alan I cannot believe such a thought would even cross his mind. I may be wrong there, and this is just my opinion being expressed. <font color="#ff0000">Oh, don't take it out of context. We're talking about the issues raised by the referendum. It was recognized quickly that winding down or better organizing <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> are pretty much binary options.</font><br>
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I realize there's a lot of emotion here and I've been guilty of succumbing to it, too, but please: let's ALL try to be objective, especially community leaders. I will do better myself.<br>
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Randy<br>
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