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Why are they doing distro via DVD's? That's kind of insane, why not just put a symbian account on github, upload each project, and let what ever community there

• davidw 16y ago
  Nokia is a Big Company, and while there are people there who really get open source, as an organization I've never got that impression about them.
  • deno 16y ago
    Well they didn't do that much software before. But just look at QT -- they're managing open source project and they're doing it very well. Also they opened it more. Now think what would happen if Oracle were to buy Trolltech.
    • Tuna-Fish 16y ago
      As far as I know, Qt is entirely being managed by the people who used to run it before -- Nokia just bought them, gave them some new priorities (main target is now smartphones), told them they don't have to make a profit anymore and set them loose. The major changes that happened at Qt (namely the LGPL release and dropping copyright assignment) are a direct result of getting paid by Nokia to make software instead of selling it.
• blasdel 16y ago
  For starters they use mercurial, those repos are still up for now, not every project they host is open source, and the open source projects are not all freely licensed for the older versions. For the stuff that a theoretical community can legally pick up, they're free to do so independently, but I have no idea why the hell anyone would work on this crap for free.