[maemo-developers] sbox2 & maemo

[From: Carlos Guerreiro]

>> > components should be pushed to debian and ubuntu and get those bigger
>> > communities involved in their development. One day we will anyway be
>> >
>> Indeed. When it comes to Hildon that is certainly starting to happen 
>> now.
>
> This should be the default mode for most of the stuff we do. Arguing
> that we need to keep something in-house for "competitive advantage" is
> bollocks. Nokia has a few completely proprietary software platforms
> already. No need create another one. Anyway almost all of the
> proprietary components in maemo are of dubious quality, maybe there's
> a reason for that...

I understand platform as not to include applications, basically covering
the scope of Maemo. The vast majority of the Maemo platform is open
and the trend has been towards completeness.
Within that platform scope, I too think that diverging from upstream is 
silly
and that alignment of packaging with Debian makes sense.
What happens on top of the Maemo platform is a different discussion 
altogether.