Precisely!

Anyone who's ever bought an Orange phone knows how hard Orange works to protect you from your own device, to patronise you, to make it hard or impossible to install your own software or multimedia, and to make it as easy as possible to install Orange's overpriced offerings (often by accident).

The fact that Orange finds MeeGo an attractive platform is not good news.

But I suppose it's inevitable given that MeeGo explicitly entrenches the idea of restricting the GPL to the lower-level stuff and favoring binary-friendly licenses for all the user-level stuff. Combine that with non-redistributable drivers for critical hardware bits, and the claim of MeeGo as "fully open source" is looking like a joke.

If Richard Stallman was dead he'd be turning in his grave.

And qgil, I can tell that you've never had an Orange phone.

Regards,
Roger