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qgil
2009-09-23 , 03:26
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I agree these tags are disrepectful. This was a topic for a long thread a while ago.
A short comment after breakfast and before picking the train to the office.
Open media players. Let's take into account that Nokia profits bring the cash to fund INdT, who then develops independently Canola under GPLv3.
And then you have many free software developers hired by Nokia and getting a decent salary thanks to its business. They work hard during office hours on open/closed stuff and then they can relax at home and work in their free time on the pet projects they prefer e.g.
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mplayer/
or
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/ukmp/
I could go on with more Nokia employees, developer partners and community developers that are being directly or indirectly benefiting from the Nokia business and putting effort to improve multimedia software. The long tail is long, and it's the same in other software areas.
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