Skype seen (and pictured) working in the N800 in a Nokia stand at a public event. Isn't this a communication? But before someone jumps to my neck, I will share some ideas in order to put this thread in the right track: - Companies sign agreements when collaborating. In the agreements they define the levels of confidentiality of the collaboration among many other details. - Mixing commercial and proprietary software practices with free and open source software practices might lead very easily to a mismatch of expectations. - maemo is an open source development platform and the maemo team is willing to discuss any topic related to development or open source here or in maemo-developers. - It is fine to discuss in this list issues about proprietary applications for end users, hardware or even accessories. However, if you are looking for official Nokia answers about these topics you better try in the Nokia product page http://nokia.com/n800 and the support channels linked there. - We really don't want to force the community to beg/demand anything. We simply don't have answers for everything as fast as you would like. What we are having here is a complex (and generally fruitful) dialog between a corporation, its customers, a community of developers and a maemo core team. I would say we (all) are not doing bad, and it's improving. Comparing this dialog to the desired practices of community open source development is fine, this is a challenge we want to take. Let's not forget though that our picture is far more complex than most open source projects (volume of code, volume in general, hardware development, global competitors, mainstream products, corporate context, commercial partners...) The positive counterpart of this complexity is that Nokia can bring the open source technologies behind maemo to a next level if this project continues its way to a Nokia-size success. Upstream developers and wise/power users have seen some impact already in the Linux and free desktop context, only two years after maemo and the 770 was announced. PS: You would be surprised how many people work in Finland during July. -- Quim Gil - http://maemo.org
