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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago on Monday August 16, 2021 @12:40PM (#28200020)
They had massive organizational problems. At one point years ago I received a series of e-mails asking for permission to move my preorder funds from one org to another. That's when I wrote them off.
Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago on Monday August 16, 2021 @12:37PM (#28199987)
> not only meant Nokia had to rewrite its proprietary UI and repackage everything

this is half-correct. Maemo->Meego did shift from GTK to QT, but they kept the Debian packaging on the N9 (the only device to ship with Meego)