[maemo-users] N800 user unhappy with OS2008 upgrade -- are there others?

[From: Luca Ognibene]

----- Original message -----
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 15:19 -0500, Mike Lococo wrote:
> > > > >  1. The RSS reader is no better able to handle a feed with a hundred
> > > > >      entries; my favorite feed falls in this class.
> > > >
> > > > I don't think the RSS reader will ever be a priority, unfortunately.
> > > > It's been tagged (as far as I can tell) as a low-importance "toy" app.
> > > >  That, and there are so many other high profile applications like the
> > > > browser and they only have so many staff.
> > >
> > > Then give up the source code it.  It's only a news reader after all, not
> > > like there is any innovative software here.  I'm continually
> > > disappointed with Nokia in this regard.  They just don't seem to "get
> > > it".
> >
> > I honestly don't understand how people can still conscience themselves
> > trotting out the "Nokia doesn't get open code" argument after Microb and
> > Modest.  They are the two premiere apps for the platform and Nokia is
> > doing exactly what you suggest in opening them up.
>
> Because it's a crappy little news reader and people are unhappy with it.
> It's been said here more than once.  Let the community fix it, that's
> what "getting it" means.  Releasing something as open source that was
> open source in the first place, doesn't count. Microb and Modest which
> use webkit/gecko/etc and Tinymail, were open source right from the get
> go.
>
>

Are you guys talking about this? http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo4.0/free/source/o/osso-rss-feed-reader/

now you can fix it! 
Luca