Thread: Nokia and Ogg: ambivalence or actively hostile?
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lardman is offline lardman
2007-12-10 , 17:20
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The new Nokia is a company that wants to sell you a mobile device that you'll use to purchase lots of music and other forthcoming content (N-Gage games) and lock you into their portals and services (navigation subscriptions). The device is only a means to an end, and giving customers choices by making the devices open limits Nokia's future revenue.
Dare I say "what a load of twaddle", we're not locked in in any way. You can use DRM-free mp3 for your music, etc. You can write and run apps on the device, and you can browse whichever sites you want to do download music. I don't know how you can call this "locked in"?

Some people obviously want ogg vorbis support, this is fair enough, I don't know why it's not included, but have given a possible answer. I don't think it's part of a grand Nokia masterplan to make us only buy their music/service/whatever thoughas mp3 offers as many ways to get out of such a masterplan.

This apply to practically all available today pieces of code. You never know where submarine patent lies. And this is THE argument against software patents.
Yes indeed, my point was that if Nokia have licensed mp3 (for example) from Fraunhofer IIS, they are probably protected from any "submarine" patents which surface (i.e. Fraunhofer IIS would have to guarantee that they hold all the applicable patents otherwise why bother licensing it at all). On the other hand I don't know if they have licensed mp3 (etc.) from them.