There was a story recently, On the Graying of Gnome, comment by boudewijnrempt [1]: > The reason is simple: Nokia. Nokia (and to a much lesser extent, Intel) b

There was a story recently, On the Graying of Gnome, comment by boudewijnrempt [1]: > The reason is simple: Nokia. Nokia (and to a much lesser extent, Intel) built up a lot for Maemo and Meego. Just for KOffice/Calligra, at least twenty people were paid to work on the documents application. For all of Maemo/Meego, the total number of people Nokia funded was enormous. > And then Elop, and the burning platform, and Windows, and well, that was 2012. > By 2014, my company was dead, amongst others, and, yeah, the peak had peaked, and the big chance for free software had gone. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25489580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25489580