So HiFo failed for how long? 5 months? 6? To appoint a proper HiFo council? That kinda sounds pretty odd.
Also while HiFo maybe isn't limited to mere maemo.org stewardship for obvious reasons of nobody but God knows the future, it's still damn sure HiFo's primary and most noble duty to take care about maemo (incl maemo6 aka meego) interests, and nobody planned to create a HiFo entity to supervise and reign maemo, decide on maemo's future, or move maemo elsewhere or redefine what maemo means. Any such stuff gets decided by every single member of maemo community, nobody else!
What does that mean? >>...if Jolla had decided to work with us << what kind of work would that be, done by whom (on "our" side, not Jolla's)? And what would HiFo do to maemo assets when such agreement was a reality? >>...a potential partner or sponsor may not be interested in working with legacy maemo because it wants to be future looking, but it would be interested in doing another project with us.<< Who's "us"? What were the benefits for maemo community? Who asked community about their notions regarding that? How's that covered by "HiFo mission"?
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