Thread: Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles
View Single Post
misterc's Avatar
misterc is offline misterc
2012-03-19 , 04:29
Posts: 1,625 | Thanked: 998 times | Joined on Aug 2010
#490
Originally Posted by zwer View Post
[...]For example, if Skype was to move to fully open source, it would still generate revenue for the original Skype inventors [...]
rather a bad example, as it goes... Skype was bought up by... m@ke$$h!t
and that wasn't because of the money (they never made) then simply of the proverbial technical incompetency of m$...despite being in the IM (& VOIP) business for ages, they haven't even figured out how to make it work; the only reason ppl use their $h!t is because they don't know any better

Originally Posted by zwer View Post
With an OS in question it gets a bit more complicated because OSes are not generally provided as services but rather standalone entities [...]
so i just get this right... you bought all the LostDOS CDs / DVDs (maybe even diskettes? hopefully 5¼ ones ¦-)))) from m@ke$$h!t to put them in your book shelf? mind telling us what for?

Originally Posted by zwer View Post
Why would you care if somebody else can use it if you think you can differentiate enough through the hardware alone?
go tell that to all the companies manufacturing ANDroid devices
hardly any ANDroid devices lasts more then a few months, no matter how powerful it is upon release. & none of them ever includes ground breaking HW innovations; merely more of the same (thus no money available for R&D...)

Originally Posted by zwer View Post
projects like Eclipse, the Linux kernel, WebKit, Qt...
none of those is/was profitable
either foundations or... see 1st § (Trolltech got acquired by NOKIA and last time i checked, they didn't make any money from it)

0 out of 4...