newbie questions

[Artur de Souza]

Quoting Jeffery MacEachern <j.maceachern at gmail.com>:
> You'd have to get a comment from Nokia, and I think whatever they've
> said so far is all they're likely to for the moment.  What I have
> personally seen from official sources is that the N900 is not
> commercially supported for MeeGo.  So, they will not be selling N900s
> with MeeGo, and they have no obligation to provide support, or
> anything else that goes with that.  However, to my knowledge you are
> right about it being a reference device, and those aren't mutually
> exclusive statements: what Nokia "supports", and what Nokia chooses to
> throw money and coders at are entirely different things, and - in this
> case - for entirely different purposes.  I think it's safe to assume
> that when MeeGo has matured some more, that installing and running
> some form of it on the N900 will be a viable proposition, however, I
> really doubt it will ever be "mainstream" even in the limited sense
> that the N900 originally was/is.  I would also recommend that you read
> the MeeGo/ARM section of the wiki, and compare the wording used for
> the N900 porting project to that of the N810 project, which is
> /definitely/ not "supported" in any sense of the word.

This is exactly what I meant :) Thanks for the clarification. I can +1  
you on this that this is Nokia's *official* (whatever it means)  
position until now. That's exactly what they have said so far and what  
it looks like will happen.

Cheers,

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