Forgot about the Not Invented Here syndrome (I had to look at Wikipedia to know what was that acronym about). Well, I don't know. I joined this project only six months ago, so I wasn't present when the first decisions were made. For what I have seen and for what I have learned though, it looks to me that the pioneers that launched the 770 and the software inside made the most of the Invented Elsewhere software, tuning it to the tablets and pushing/funding many missing or incomplete pieces that were also invented as open source in upstream projects Elsewhere.

Every piece developed by Nokia and/or non-free had a reason to be like it was, and NIH didn't play a role for what I see. At least not in the way I understand you are rising this up, as ignoring what others have already done (intellectual property is one of the many potential factors to develop your own stuff instead of what others are doing, and it has to do with invented here or not here).

I will repeat again that most of the software included in the IT OS is open source and Invented Elsewhere. To me this is a clear symptom that Nokia looked and researched the outer world trying to find the invented pieces that didn't need to be reinvented. In some cases the election was clear, in some cases more complex or impossible.

But the platform and the applications are not static. They evolved and they keep evolving. I don't see anyone in our team reinventing wheels, and good stuff Invented Elsewhere is being taken into account either as open source projects to collaborate with or commercial & non-free projects to partner with.