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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
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.
If anything, what's coming out of the Pandora community is the opposite of Nokia's wet dream. Closed-source contributions -- be they commercial or not -- are welcomed, as long as they play nice with the OSS mindset.
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