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1) They don't do any sort of PR in the US. 2) Open source doesn't matter to the vast majority of consumers.
by jolan 16y ago
1) They don't do any sort of PR in the US.
2) Open source doesn't matter to the vast majority of consumers.
- davidw 16y agoNokia isn't really a big open source company. They're kind of ambivalent about it, actually. The real open source play, is of course, Android.
- pavlov 16y agoSorry, but that's just nonsense. In the last three years, Nokia has: * Acquired Trolltech, makers of the Qt toolkit (basis of KDE), changed Qt's licensing to the more flexible LGPL, and opened up the Qt development model to open source contributions. * Acquired Symbian, the world's most widely distributed smartphone OS, then open-sourced the whole thing and turned it over to a non-profit foundation. * Released several versions of their Maemo mobile Linux distribution on devices like N810 and N900. * Fused Maemo with Intel's Moblin effort to create MeeGo, a unified mobile Linux for netbooks, smartphones and other mobile applications. Where's the ambivalence?
- ig1 16y agoMy understanding at the time they open sourced it Symbian was a nightmare, the technical leadership was completely falling to pieces and a huge number of their developers were quitting. And when you're doing things like rolling your own STL implementation you can't just pick up random C++ devs to plug the gaps. Symbian was (still is?) dead in the water, open sourcing it was a last stab at survival.