Meanwhile, the drivers are still closed-source blobs and Nokia doesn't seem to be standing up for us, the community, to have access to the hardware from these parts providers the way other companies have (Neuros, Pandora, etc.). Worse--Nokia comes out in the press and does the most stupid backwards steps like claiming that OGG is riddled with patent issues preventing them from implementing it--but they'll implement MP3? And then telling the open source community that they NEED to embrace closed architecture and closed software--which tells me that they still don't seem to 'get it'.

Open standards and open source are both ways of enticing customers with enablement and promotes competition between all parties. Closed-source and closed-architectures are a way to keep people jailed into a product and limits progress and freedoms.

I *DO* buy into closed. I don't have a choice, most of the times. But if I'm given a choice, I will prefer the more open choice. If the music industry is any indication, people generally seem to prefer freedoms over tight controls.