Thread: Petition to Nokia & Microsoft
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2014-10-07 , 21:25
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Originally Posted by jonwil View Post
The difference is that in those areas it benefits Microsoft to support those things (especially when a competitor like Google isn't). Even their efforts to support Linux in the cloud are necessary because if they dont, everyone will go to Amazon or someone else for their cloud needs.

On the other hand, supporting anything for the N900 has zero benefit to Microsoft (since supporting the N900 will not earn them any future revenues and if anything, will hurt them)
There is benefit in turning their image, like they tried with IE for millions of dollars. Costs them nothing in comparison as they have legal dept 24/7. Pushing fake image works but costs lots of bucks. Doing something actually benefitting open source would be harder to blame on MS trying to PR it up (yeah just a gimmick; no, look they actually gave us the source, this is great...). There's nothing undermining their business here (unless the mountain of cash from samsung is based on those maemo bits) and actual real boost to their 'hi new Microsoft here, not the bad guy you think you know, now apple/google are, look we care'
 

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