And what shitty corporations do with their IP, if they're not FOSS-friendly? Dump it into the "locker" for eternity, as for their limited thinking abilities, opening any source code = some (even if small) cost and no profit, while keeping it dumped somewhere = no cost no profit. So, following their line of thinking, dumping into eternal freezer is more "profitable" than opening.

Nokia presented this stance many times even before elop, no reasons to believe it changed to better during nokia$oft transformation.

IMO, asking Council - whoever they are, and if that body even still exist at all (sorry, I'm out of loop about such things) - is just implying on those poor guys to waste their time. Really, I don't believe anyone ever think about receiving positive answer (or any answer, probably).

/Estel

// Edit

Not that harmattan parts are, in any way, anything worthwhile for the community. The only thing that "can" be done for those devices, is to make all "Trusted" computing bits miraculously disappear on hardware level (that is, no signed-*anything*), and dumping whole system for something better. FOSS'ified Fremantle (preferably) or Mer without current limitations. Ah, and if someone need more miracles - closed hardware (GPS) becoming fully documented and open, all of sudden

No amount of OS or UI components opening is going to help a device, that is so full of treacherously closed hardware.

If someone got confused by the above - no, it's not gonna happen, it's just a, well, "thought experiment".