maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Ari Jaaski says OSS must play nice with DRM and locked parts

	qgil	2008-06-15 , 12:33
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Originally Posted by mwiktowy

However, the debatable thing is the direction they are pointing in for the future thrust.

As I see it, Ari wasn't pointing to the future of Nokia but to the present in the mobile industry, highly conditioned to the operators and content providers business models.

The majority of free software developers know about the computer industry, but not necessarely about the mobile industry. The open source code might be the same, but the actors, business models and even legislations around that code are very different. Knowing about the differences can't be harmful for those willing to see open source winning in the mobile space as well.

The reason that people are negatively vocal is not because they seek to damage Nokia but rather they want to make sure Nokia keeps steering the the more open course

Fair enough. Please point loudly to any product fitting in your pocket more open and successful than the most open&successful Nokia product, now or in the future.

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