Thread: [Petition] For Nokia to Open 100% of the Closed Components in Maemo 5/n900
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2010-06-07 , 17:52
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Originally Posted by nosa101 View Post
Fair enough and I did admit to being ignorant. I didn't know Intel was open source. But seeing as intel is not in the mobile device (or established) market, I can see why Nokia would be apprehensive.

To me, it could be a big risk. They could be wildly successful or they could fail woefully. Nothing in-between and that thought sounds scary to most managers. They could, however, use the n900 as a case study for open source development. I am willing to be a guinea pig.
Nokia just signed up to a partnership with Intel and Novell to do er let me think ... opensource MEEGO.

If you use an N900 then a large portion is already Open Source, the world hasn't stopped turning, the sky didn't fall in, continental drift kept drifting and you sir are already a guinea pig and Nokia is still making money.

So I'm curious, where is this big risk you perceive?

IBM has signed tier1 strategic partnerships with Novell (SuSE) and Redhat to deliver appliance based services based on Opensource platforms.

Even Google is now as near as makes no difference 100% opensource across the board, system delivery and internal users and they also make money.

Specious comments about no profit and huge risks using opensource are just wrong on their face as has been demonstrated many times already.

rgds
Last edited by uTMY; 2010-06-07 at 17:59.