Thread: Why should I believe Nokia ? Why should I work for Nokia for free ? ... again
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2009-11-09 , 21:33
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Originally Posted by Ignacius View Post
Maybe we both have different visions of what openness means, but to my view, Nokia is really commited to it. They have been founding development of some open technologies I'm using on my computer right now such as gstreamer, telepahty or the Linux kernel, but they do it mainly through another companies like collabora. Now, they have buy Trolltech and are pushing Qt. I think we're never going to know exactly how much work is doing Nokia on some open source projects, but what I have for sure is that buying those devices is helping to have a much better open source ecosystem.
Settle down, there, hippie.

I'm about as cynical as they come and I generally agree with the notion that they're doing a "decent" job of being open compared to most manufacturers but I don't feel like a lot of that credit goes so much to Nokia than perhaps to the chipset manufacturers and others. Otherwise, why would Nokia continue to make their own applications running on these tablets completely closed? Mind you--I've been surprised by some of the corrections I've gotten from the Fremantle openness compared to the closed-minded source code of the N800 series.. but it doesn't help me, given I'll probably be stuck with the N800 series for a while until something else without a cellular radio comes along--IF it comes along. In the meantime, I still feel jailed by the closed-minded code and I can understand what I think MIGHT be the OP's frustration. (Although, honestly, I think he's going over the top and much more cynical than I am. Despite what people might expect, I'm delighted each time I'm proven wrong.)