[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] IMPORTANT: vulnerability in Application Manager, please check your repositories

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On 10/25/06, Mikhail Sobolev <mss at mawhrin.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:49:09PM +0100, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > If Nokia's plans now solely consist of yearly releases (with no word as to
> > whether or not they cost money), the community'll probably want to start
> > thinking about forking whatever's present so that we're not dependent on
> > occasional, drip-fed releases from Nokia.
> I'm not sure where you got this idea of "yearly" releases.  Nokia 770
> with its software was released in November 2005.  A major software
> upgrade for it was release in June 2006.  That accounts for 8 months at
> most...

Sorry, it was an exageration to make the point: without some concrete
information from Nokia, we've no idea. (From a technical PoV, IT 2005
and IT 2006 have been completely different, though: lots of minor
releases to fix bugs in the former; nothing like that with the latter
- but there's Sardine instead)

And despite David's flippant comment to read what Marius said as
gospel - because it came from @nokia.com - Marius' later clarification
that this was *not* to be taken as a promise underlines my question.

> > Either way, some professionalism would be nice.
> It's certainly a matter of definition :)  Please do define it and we'll
> see if it's possible to follow your definition...

Although I take your point, TBH, I've got better and more productive
things to do with my time than define English words and idioms. If
Nokia want to employ consultants on CRM and Assertiveness without
Aggression[1] that's their perogative.

However, Clue #1: professionalism is not referring to customers
through an official channel as living in "twisted little world"s.

Cheers,

Andrew

[1] http://www.creativeedgeuk.com/assertion.asp

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