[MeeGo-dev] Where's the evidence that Tizen will contain *any* MeeGo code?

[Andrew Savory]

Hi,

A few clarifications...

On 30 September 2011 17:24, Alison Chaiken <alchaiken at gmail.com> wrote:

***Intel is abandoning MeeGo for LiMo just as Nokia abandoned MeeGo
> for Window Phone 7.***
>

Ignore the PR. Look at Jim's statement (
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2011/09/welcome-tizen-linux-foundation),
Imad's statement (
https://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2011/whats-next-meego), and Dawn's
statement (https://www.tizen.org/blogs/dawnfoster/2011/welcome-tizen). These
are all mostly free of marketing fluff and stick to the facts - including no
reference to LiMo. LiMo can fluff its feathers as much as it likes, but it's
not the LiMo platform going into Tizen.

I think you can safely assume LiMo platform is also dead, since the platform
that LiMo has is not being open-sourced as originally promised and they
stopped working on code-related activities a few months back. What is
actually happening is that Samsung Linux Platform (and not LiMo) is going to
form part of Tizen.

I haven't seen any statement from anyone who *knows* what's going on
> to indicate that Tizen will actually incorporate even one line of
> MeeGo code.     Tizen might just be a new name for LiMo to save face
> for Intel and Linux Foundation.   Sure, Tizen will contain bluez and
> likely ofono and connman (both because they're both totally awesome
> and they're created by Intel), but does that make it MeeGo?


Tizen is a new project because it's unlikely Samsung would contribute to
something so widely perceived as "the platform formerly owned by Nokia",
amongst other reasons.

But until there's more hard details on what it is, it's premature to make
guesses.

On 30 September 2011 17:45, Robin Burchell <robin+meego at viroteck.net> wrote:

>From discussions on IRC over the past few days, we do know that it at
> least contains *some* parts of MeeGo's legacy: it uses RPM, OBS, and
> apparently has an ARM port based to some degree on the MeeGo ARM
> efforts.
>

Until there's an official statement to confirm that, I wouldn't make any
assumptions, especially about package format and build system.


Andrew.
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