On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente <jsmanrique@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My suspects: > > Years ago, Nokia started a project to get a full linux device running > gtk based apps, with matchbox window manager and gecko based browser. > That's how minimo started, funded by a R&D Nokia project. After > months, Nokia decided to use Opera in its first linux/gtk/mb device, > and the minimo team started on its windowsce version.... Sorry if that's the case, I never heard of that part of the story. When I complained/asked why they were targetting a platform which already had a decent built-in browser (ie if you buy a pocketPC with a Microsoft OS then it's expected you'd be happy with MSFT's solutions and Microsoft's own browser to begin with) instead of selecting a platform which had a good market share (at the time more than MSFT) like PalmOS, the answer I got was "we selected WinCE because that's the OS we the developers are familiar with". Period. End of story. > That are my thoughts., based in my experience in GPE and MB projects > (in their early stages...) I do remember about the Nokia funding. Yeah it made very little sense to fund Mozilla then choose Opera. But corporations do those things... I'm getting used to it. FC _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
