Thread: Nokia hires ex-Apple executive
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nilchak is offline nilchak
2009-10-03 , 13:38
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#29
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
the only good thing we should hope for is that we can keep this open platform the way it is - because enough people will like it the way we do. if they don't, there's no way to save it.
Benny, you do realise that if Nokia doesnt make a profit from the device and, even then the n900 is dead.

This is the whole balancing act of open source being used by corporations - to make a profit from an open platform by selling something on top of it (the open platform). Its not some charity and open source ideologue that Nokia is out to prove to the world. It doesn't work that way.

As must as we cherish open source and open source ideology, it has to earn the bread at the end of the day - and the two need not be mutually exclusive either.