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Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com)Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com)Posted Feb 11, 2011 8:58 UTC (Fri) by xav (guest, #18536)Parent article: Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com)
Isn't Meego dead now that Nokia announced its partnership with Microsoft ?
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Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 10:49 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
It was already dead before the announcement.
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 11:02 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
The thing to worry about now is Trolltech and QT. The pro-QT folks better be right on the level of portability it brings because. The principal platform for it is going to be Windows Phone 7 if it has any future in Nokia.
Sucks
What future for Qt now? Posted Feb 11, 2011 11:17 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
Does not Windows Phone 7 / Windows 8 come with its own set of UI widgets? What is left for Qt in Nokia?
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 14:13 UTC (Fri) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]
As said by rvhf, WP7 already has it's framework.
And Nokia confirmed that there will be no Qt on Windows Phone: http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/nokia-developer-news/20...
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 14:22 UTC (Fri) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]
Lots of negative comments in there.
Oh, and apparently it's not just devs: Nokia's share lost 9% just after the announcement http://gadgets.ndtv.com/shownews.aspx?id=GADEN20110169247...
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 14:26 UTC (Fri) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]
Oops ... right now it's -11% and counting. Good move Nokia !
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 19:29 UTC (Fri) by jebba (✭ supporter ✭, #4439) [Link]
Nokia had a good plan, followed up by *TERRIBLE* execution. They can't even figure out how to get their servers running properly. It's sad, because Nokia's incompetence reflects poorly on Linux.
They managed to contribute a good amount of code to Linux, but piss off everyone from low level users to high level hackers.
Their "Open Source Advocacy" was closer to "binary apologist" for proprietary software.
It is really amazing to see how fast all this unfolds and how quickly they self destruct and lose billions of Euros (literally). When the N900 came out, it was the ultimate Linux device, but Nokia totally blew the momentum. Android went from nothing to dominance. I wonder if being able to actually use functioning Google servers had anything to do with it...
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5818 <-- the beginning of the end "We need Servers"
https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615 <-- continued failure
Nokia, good riddance.
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 18:00 UTC (Fri) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]
<quote>The thing to worry about now is Trolltech and QT</quote>
Trolltech is long gone. There is only one possible route to go with QT: fork under a new name. Let the forking begin. This is going to be primarily driven by KDE devs.
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 11:09 UTC (Fri) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723) [Link]
MeeGo is much broader than Nokia participation. Among others Intel is a major actor.
From the quoted article:
"MeeGo takes a different approach, aiming to be a vendor-neutral Linux platform for a variety of devices"
"MeeGo is a different creature in the realm of Linux. In some respects, it is much like any other Linux distro focusing on packaging, integration, building and supporting releases, and helping third-party developers. But in other respects it is very unusual; something like a "metadistribution" because it ships multiple UXes designed for different types of hardware, but it also expects customers to take its code and modify it heavily before delivering it to consumers. Once you dig into the project, however, you can see that it's just Linux underneath although the opportunity it offers app developers to write open source programs for netbooks, phones, and other devices is certainly new territory."
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 11:13 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
> Among others Intel is a major actor.
I would not be so sure about Intel going on alone with Meego. Moreover, they did not focus solely on it.
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 15:56 UTC (Fri) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]
True, especially since Meego also dropped the Netbook UI. What is there left without handsets and Netbooks?...
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 17:27 UTC (Fri) by osma (subscriber, #6912) [Link]
iPad-style tablets would be the obvious third category, no?
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 21:14 UTC (Fri) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]
I don't know, I'd always assumed that they used the netbook UI. At least meego.com doesn't specifically list tablets.
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 18:03 UTC (Fri) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]
<quote>I would not be so sure about Intel going on alone with Meego. Moreover, they did not focus solely on it.</quote>
And by trying to make it look more like RHEL they killed it.
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 19:21 UTC (Fri) by walters (subscriber, #7396) [Link]
How did MeeGo look like RHEL??
Getting Started with MeeGo (Linux.com) Posted Feb 11, 2011 18:35 UTC (Fri) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
This all reminds me of SGI's demise in the late 90s with it's disastrous adoption of WinNT. There was a murky pro-Microsoft CEO situation there too.
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