I wonder if nokia is trying to actually make the IT a phone now and running up against a wall trying to get US carriers to offer it, hence the statements at minimum about SIM locking. I don't think any phone in the US will take off that's not offered by a carrier, and the change in iPhone pricing suggests that subsidizing the initial cost of the phone is most effective (which presumably requires locking the phone.) And regarding DRM - I can't see how anyone likes that but at the moment it seems like content providers will only sell streaming content without DRM.

In my mind it's a shame how the original article was framed - you first need to very firmly establish the benefits of DRM for linux *users* under today's climate and what that allows to happen, and why that can't happen without DRM right now, before you even start to talk about developers.

Developers working for free will decide for themselves if they want to be involved with DRM. My guess is most probably won't, and almost certainly the "open source community" won't.

The original talk makes a lot of sense within the context of OS developers working on someone else's dime. Perhaps that should have been emphasized.