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Ari Jaaski says OSS must play nice with DRM and locked parts
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ddalex
2008-06-13 , 14:09
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So my hope for a totally free device from Nokia fades. Not that I saw that in the future anyway. Nokia is a commercial company, and giving away things for free will not make them any money. But Ari's speech is a bit harsher than expected. To copy verbatim from Slashdot post:
Jaaksi admitted that concepts like these 'go against the open-source philosophy,' but said they were necessary components of the current mobile industry. 'Why do we need closed vehicles? We do,' he said. 'Some of these things harm the industry but they're here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional issues, but this dialogue is very much needed. As an industry, we plan to use open-source technologies, but we are not yet ready to play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round too.'"...
So.... I'm waiting for Pandora now. BTW, did I mention that I find the Gigabyte
M528
extremely sweet.
Thanks, Nokia, for the beautiful idea and form factor. I'm sorry, but I don't think I'm gonna stay with you if your future plans are so bleak. No, it's not you, it's me....
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