[maemo-developers] [LWN] Embedded Linux and the community

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi Eero,

Eero Tamminen wrote:
> ext Dave Neary wrote:
>> It's funny, though (and a mark of the success of Nokia's efforts) that
>> he considers "Maemo" to be a community project, when the package in
>> question, the kernel, is almost exclusively worked on within Nokia for
>> the Maemo platform.
> 
> If you look at the LWN kernel page article "Most active 2.6.27
> employers" table "changed lines" side, Nokia is at least for that
> kernel version listed higher than for example Novell or Intel.
> 
> I.e. you got it a bit wrong, Nokia works with the upstream community
> so that less Maemo specific changes are needed.

Excuse me, I was ambiguous.

Parse this as: "The people working on the Maemo kernel are all working
for Nokia". I know & appreciate the upstream work being done by Nokia,
and didn't mean to suggest that you were working only inside Nokia.

Cheers,
Dave.

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