Because it was mentioned in Slashdot doesn't mean it wasn't in other reporting such as BusinessWeek, InfoWorld, Arstechnica, etc. There's certainly more out there reporting on open-source community news than Slashdot.

Good choice quote from the Arstechnica article:
"We want to educate open-source developers. There are certain business rules [developers] need to obey, such as DRM, IPR [intellectual property rights], SIM locks and subsidized business models," Jaaksi said, according to BusinessWeek. "Why do we need closed vehicles? We do. 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."

Could it be that different people have different needs and thusly should be able to choose to continue along the 'Nokia blessed' path.. or choose their own with the flexibility that Linux affords? Closing off portions of the kernel isn't helping to make a device any more useful to a more broad audience of potential customers and certainly gives them a good reason to go elsewhere when someone else doesn't do that. DRM and SIM locks have proven themselves out to the point that even the general public is well aware of how crippling they are. Why are consumers and open-source developers being told that they need to accept it?

Later, he tries to backpeddle in his blog but that's not much consolation given the clear intent to suggest that the open community "needs to work the other way round too." I deeply disagree with that stance but the dialog on this is welcomed. Although, with previous faux pas such as the suggestion that OGG is full of patent problems, without actually pointing out what those problems are, isn't particularly constructive to their arguments.

Yeah, I've read as much--but at least the mindset in that organization is to start out as open as possible and try to work toward it. So far, I haven't heard anyone from the OpenPandora project come out to say that the community needs to learn to be more accepting of closed standards/architectures/software or any other other such closed-minded mentality such as DRM. So far, my impression is that the mentality there is a much more developer and consumer-friendly attitude that TOLERATES closed-minded IPR not EMBRACES it.