I can't make up my mind whether I'm exceptionally stupid, the people at Nokia are exceptionally stupid, or they people at Nokia think the rest of us are exceptionally stupid.

With the whole Maemo/meego enterprise, engaging the Open Source Community, building on goodwill, green business and ethical practices Nokia seem to be going out of their way to present themselves as the Good Guys of handhelds (whether phones, tablets whatever). And they seem to be putting quite a bit of effort into it.
http://www.businessgreen.com/busines...top-spot-green

http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/...witcher=mobile

http://ncomprod.nokia.com/corporate-...uct/highethics

To list but a few

And then this business fo data and un-turnoffable sms comes along completely knocking that idea sideways.

Are Nokia people so dim they don't see why this might be a problem for the ethical, open source fanbase they've attracted to maemo?

Are Nokia people so blind they think the maemo fanbase is so dim we won't notice?

I feel very confused. Are Nokia good guys or not? I don't know any more.

Small thought: in searching for links, I came across the Nokia Code of Conduct for business which talks about going beyond the point of mere law in their ethical approach. It also encouraged employees to report violations of the code - though no mention is made of whether the public might do so. Is that area wirth persuing?


Editing again now I've had chance to skim the code:

I'd say there's a violation of "fair and reasonable choices on its collection and use" wouldn't you?