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Role of Nokia in maemo.org
The Maemo development platform and this community website is contributed and operated by Nokia.
The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is the first product from Nokia, that is compatible with maemo. Nokia aims to use maemo as a development platform in subsequent products in this category as well. As maemo is fully open source, it means a whole new degree of openness for developers using Nokia products.
With maemo Nokia aims to encourage others to adopt, use and contribute technologies for handheld products and applications. This will result in a feature rich, mature and well-supported software base that could evolve as a de-facto standard for Linux handhelds via the open source process.
During the creation of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, Nokia has been already working with many open source projects and initiatives, contributing and adopting upcoming open standards.
For additional information about Nokia's contributions to open source project, please visit the Nokia contributions page.
For the time being, Nokia controls the development of maemo to keep it aligned with its product development. This may mean in practice some limitations in accepting contributions to the package repository. However, we are open to suggestions to improve opportunities for involvement.
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