So, today I had an opportunity to hear an interesting lecture that talked about messaging. One thing that I hooked onto was this concept of choice vs. the right to choose. I think this is especially important as Maemo becomes mainstream.

Today, as described, maemo is all about being open, free and accessible. The benefit of this is a platform that embraces a diversity of ideas and sources of innovation. The downside of this is this degree of freedom is (or may be) considered cumbersome to the mainstream user. So I would like to start a conversation on what is more important.

Choice or the right to choose

Choice means that you have hundreds of options put in front of you and if you would like to be able to use any of these options, then you must find, test, build, etc.

The right to choose means that you are presented with a solution and if you want, you can go outside of this.

I will relate this to symbian... Choice was pre-ovi store. The right to choose was post-ovi store.

I know that there are many people who are passionate about both sides of the issue and would like to better understand. I apologize if my phrasing was too bias and will accept a better revision of either side.