Thread: Ari Jaaksi Keynote: MeeGo: A Free & Standard Linux OS for the Mobile Industry
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sjgadsby is offline sjgadsby
2010-04-26 , 02:37
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
...Nokia will use and benifit from so all the good the community is doing is basically making Nokia benifit in the long run.
That's the point of open source, Linux, and the GPL. Nokia benefits from using GPL code created by others. And all those others benefit as Nokia continues to contribute code back.

I think you know very well that copyright is such a complex law that many many loopholes exist that people like Nokia will use...
Only in so much that the GPL is a creative use of copyright law.

Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
...what is Nokia giving in return?
I already answered that. You made a "Santa" comment in reply.
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