Thread: Nokia is under pressure from Silicon Valley
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-02-26 , 22:14
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#62
Originally Posted by voidster View Post
Linux-based users tend to believe they should get everything for free and sw developers should develop for fun and eat air.
This is, quite frankly, just this side of slander. Linux users tend to be far more accepting of open source developers and those who earn money not by selling licenses, but by getting paid for the actual act of writing the software. Many, many Linux developers are paid for their work.

They just somehow need to make it profitable for application companies. Produce some sort of "dalvik-like" based sandbox where they can control and simplify the APIs, while still maintaining the freedom of use that interest the "hacker" community.
No DRM solution can be considered secure when the user still has the ability to replace the kernel. This is why Nokia is discussing the "closed" and "open" modes for the next device, so the user can decide.