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List:       meego-community
Subject:    Re: [MeeGo-community] Fwd:  Tizen: who is left then?
From:       Graham Cobb <g+meego () cobb ! uk ! net>
Date:       2011-09-29 8:45:45
Message-ID: 201109290945.46782.g+meego () cobb ! uk ! net
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On Thursday 29 September 2011 07:22:15 Thom Cherryhomes wrote:
> To those with the money:
> 
> * You tied the hands of the community leaders. Time and time again, to do
> what amounted to making sure that your own short term financial interests
> were kept, at the expense of a potential community of users who could have
> helped you. Shame on you.
> 
> To those in charge of this community:
> 
> * You did not communicate, once again, that things were changing. Shame on
> you.

There is a lot of insight in those comments.  However, I am left wondering 
what we can learn from this in terms of how to achieve the goal of a truly 
open commmunity platform for mobile and other devices.

Both Android and Maemo/Moblin/MeeGo/Tizen are making code available (when they 
choose to) but are not community projects -- all the decisions are made by a 
big commercial company (with lip service paid to allowing their big customers 
to have a say).  I think we can learn that that model does not achieve the 
goal.  

I am left believing that the only way forward is a truly open leader (like the 
Debian model).  But it is true that in order to be successful in an industry 
without commodity hardware (i.e. in the mobile industry as opposed to the PC 
industry) the project would need participation from some big vendors -- we 
need their money, their people, their hardware and their power with suppliers.  
So, we are left looking for big players who want to work with and support a 
project which is truly open and independent.  

I wonder whether any exist.  The question they will ask is: what is in it for 
them?

Graham
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