Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
 

He got it wrong, its Nokia is so bad compared to Google.

I actually love Maemo, but Nokia's support is the absolute SHITE

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
 

Every major DVR that is sold/rented by cable companies are Linux-based;
RedHat Enterprise Linux (RedHat's stock price passed MS last year, and their numbers have done nothing but increased even through the economic downturn);
The BSY-1 and BSY-2 sonar systems are both Linux-based;
...the list goes on and on.

And let's compare that with "commercial successes".

The iPhone had a bug in which an attacker could take over your iphone by sending a series of text messages.

MS Windows has created an entire cottage industry around antivirus and anti-spyware. They have also have vulerabilities in Windows that date back to Win3.1 that they will never fix.

Apple had vulnerabilities in their wireless drivers. Instead of fixing it, they sent a legion of lawyers to threaten the researchers that found it.

Sounds like the big boys shipped half-baked software too. The only difference is that you are out a bunch of money, and you are at their mercy as to when or whether they will ever fix it.

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
 

Although, you could argue that Tivo-ization (which it appears Nokia is guilty of imposing on us in the Nokia tablets and the N900 phone) gives us just as much lock-in in terms of being able to have the community fix the ruined bits that are closed or are held hostage to the closed bits of code.