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Palm Kills Community Before It Begins
Former Fan of Palm writes to tell us that an enthusiastic, supportive developer community has fallen victim to corporate ineptitude once again. The preDevCamp started as a community-driven effort designed to mirror the iPhoneDevCamp based on the new "Pre" product announced by Palm. Unfortunately, suspicion and legal posturing seems to have gutted the founders of any and all enthusiasm they may have once had. When will corporations realize that community support is the best way to drive success? "As a corporation, I acknowledge that Palm's only responsibility is to its shareholders. There's nothing self serving or evil about that; it's how things work in big business. However there are many keen and willing developers out there, who have been waiting for the arrival of WebOS. A development platform is only a success if it is broadly adopted. Instead of embracing the grassroots upswell of interest in WebOS that preDevCamp fostered, Palm seem to be, at best, oblivious and, at worst, disdainful of the enthusiasm and good will engendered by these folk. I think they are missing a real opportunity to be involved in and to help generate the growth of a vital community."
If, by open, do you mean in the same fashion as goatse? If it's anything like it's parent OS, I'll have to agree;)
not to worry, clearly these jokers are very well equipped to relaunch under a new name: devHissyFit
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
Hypocrisy is the essence of pure evil.
Overreaction is the essence of pure evil.
No. Describing things as the essence of pure evil is the essence of pure evil.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Recursion is the essence of pure evil.
Honestly...I completely forgot about Android.
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It takes a big man to admit his mistake.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money
It takes a big man to admit his mistake. and a bigger man to make him admit it