Thread: [Council] Nokia response to MyNokia subscription in PR1.2
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2010-07-06 , 20:43
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Actually, Linux does mean 100% open. Anything that is in Linux is open. You can attach non-open to it, you can run non-open in it but Linux is 100% open and that IS the whole point. Distributions based on Linux, not-so-much. Go read the GPL license that comes with it. Go on.
I know the license quite well. You may note that the N900 doesn't run "Linux". It runs Maemo, a distribution based on Linux, which as you yourself noted above does not have to be 100% open source, since it's a derivative work.

Originally Posted by Nathraiben View Post
But this is NOT the same as registering for my bank, because my bank didn't kidnap me in my sleep to steal my information without me even realising it.
So now they're broadcasting your phone number and kidnapping you? I give up. Reading your poor analogies is like being raped by an oil-coated BP capture boat captain dressed as Arthur C. Clarke.