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	johnkzin	2009-09-23 , 22:33
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Originally Posted by luca

qed.

If you want a real nokia device, with all the bells, whistles, and services, you'll have to pay, even if all the software is free and a chinese knock-off could emulate it.

Your point?

The point of the chinese knock-off argument is "why would Nokia, effectively, subsidize those chinese knock-offs by letting them use Maemo, and thus undermine people's incentive to buy Nokia devices with Maemo on them?"

Redhat is not in the same business that Nokia is in. Redhat wants to sell Linux support contracts, which get more market as Linux in general becomes more popular. Nokia wants to sell complete devices (not just hardware). Very different businesses.

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