Thread: How can we encourage iPhone developers to develop on Maemo?
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2009-08-15 , 10:53
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
@korbe: Ok, let me just rephrase it differently.
Nokia is not in the 'opensource business' solely for opensource's sake.
Surely they see this as an investment, an incubation project to grow an opensource OS that can be used on their products because they're not in the OS business.
True. But Nokia *IS* in OpenSource business and with each iteration it is more in. With each generation there is more code opened and more transparency with development (although you could probably not notice it due to all whining here ).

Nokia apparently decided that OpenSource isn't bad for business and goes with it.

Maybe they noticed that in global scale there is enough people interested in OpenSource products that they can maintain whole line of products?

BTW - according to recent article on BBC site about Red Hat OpenSource is now about of 20% of global IT market.