Will the Mer Project Keep MeeGo Alive? | Linux Today

Will the Mer Project Keep MeeGo Alive?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 5, 2011

“In a message on the MeeGo email list today, Carsten Munk
proposes the Mer project as a sustainable way for MeeGo and other
communities to work with Tizen. Munk explains that many MeeGo
project contributors originated from the Mer project, which stood
for Maemo Reconstructed. “We were big on open governance, open
development and open source,” he says.

Munk says that the resurrected Mer project is not intended to be
anti-Intel or anti-Tizen; instead, the project plans to collaborate
with the new Tizen efforts.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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