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2009-11-26 , 17:40
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Originally Posted by Andre Klapper View Post
And you really think that will change something to the positive?

Most of these companies have a long tradition of opensource or bought in companies (and their cooperate culture) that always have been opensource (in case of Novell: Ximian and Suse).
And in the case of Nokia, Trolltech.

In Nokia, many managers and developers come from Symbian, for example the S60 series. Not all of them are used to interacting and talking directly to a community, and it takes a while to convince everybody that there's **advantages**.
Did they miss the bit where you were given most of your latest OS by other people for free?

This transition to an open culture does not become easier when developers get immediately attacked on the first day they join the community for stuff that is SIMPLY NOT THEIR FAULT.
I'm not sure what would encourage Nokia to open up any more than pointing out the problems in not doing so, but I'm completely open to suggestions.

I hope it's a bit easier now to understand the situation with Nokia and that the comparison to the other big companies you listed is not that similar as it initially looked like.
It looks pretty similar to me. Nokia appears to be planning a migration away from Symbian to a Maemo, they've bought Trolltech, and (more or less) opened the Symbian code for good measure. You're a free software company now, and it is to everyone's advantage if you can try to act more like one. I really do want Maemo to be a roaring success for Nokia, but it's frustrating when the community is locked out of the bug tracking system, when test builds aren't released externally etc.

We've had reports of various firmware bugs, this one included, that have only come to light once the devices were out the door on the mass market. If there'd been more of an effort to engage the community in testing that simply wouldn't have happened. That's the advantage, and it's Nokia's for the taking, if they want it.
 

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