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sjgadsby is offline sjgadsby
2010-04-26 , 03:06
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
Because your not willing to admit that Nokia are not such a good company that your making them out to be..
I've only written that they overall do well working within the open source community and that they have supported the growth and strength of the Maemo community.

I pay little attention to Nokia beyond the Maemo MeeGo division. The Ovi staff may kick puppies. I doubt it, but I don't follow much non-MeeGo Nokia news.

Not everything Nokia does with Maemo/MeeGo is sunshine and happiness, but there's a lot of good to be found. And there are signs that they continue to work toward more openness and involvement in the community, which is heartening.

...and dont actually see my point that NOKIA are going to benefit extremly from this community.
From my pro-Linux, pro-GPL point of view, that's a good thing. Nokia keep contributing back improvements to the open source code they use, and not in their own fork, but by working upstream. Everybody wins.

And if I submit bugs and enhancement request for the software I use, and Nokia developers fix them, well, that's beneficial to me too.

All i am hearing is Nokia does this and Nokia does that but in reality they are in fact right now losing more customers than they are gaining.
Could be. I don't follow the arguments over which financial returns and sales numbers are correctly interpreted in which way. And as far as I can see "Contributing to the open source community?" and "Gaining or losing customers?" are questions that aren't directly tied together.

This very community will be the saviour for Nokia because its all about Nokia and there up and coming os.
Err, okay?
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