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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Got myself a new desktop PC the other week. Most of the hardware is by Intel. Should I go and ask Intel for all the software I need/want? A word processor, great strategy games, a VoIP-client, ...? Would you? Probably not, because you know that there's people who do the hardware and there's people who do the software.

Nokia is the company who does the hardware. I understand it is their intention that it should be others who do the software; just to get things working, there's a few applications pre-installed, similar to a pre-installed Windows on a new PC.

I think its a reasonable strategy. The only thing they did wrong was to incorporate hardware thats unsupported in free software land, which prevents other variants of GNU/Linux to run on the device.

And: Yes, they are great contributors to the free software movement. Didn't we all read how now even their competitors plan to re-use the components they developed?
Your comparison is seriously flawed. A more accurate one would have been to compare the Internet Tablet to Apple computers, but I guess that would have been less convenient.