Yay, a "let's bash open source" thread!

There isn't if you're totally uninterested in not being locked in to a single vendor's platform. But that raises the question as to why you are -here- and not the Nokia end-user forums.

A license exists for that, it's called the BSD license. The GPL has an explicit purpose to keep the source open to the user so they cannot be locked in by proprietary software. Even a time delay would defeat the purpose as that allows them to keep you on the treadmill or be pushed into technical obsolesence. Just using open source shouldn't push the end user out of the forefront of technology.

If people want to use open source technology, they shouldn't be locked out of their systems, they also shouldn't be forced to "compromise", so quoted because your solution is entirely in the favor of proprietary software companies.

My issue is that MS and Apple are trying ensure that the trend we've had for the past 3+ decades of hardware under the end-user's control comes to a close, and is replaced with the trend of super locked down devices that serve 3rd party interests primarily. Currently they've got people accepting it on mobile devices, and I'd not be surprised if they move against desktop PCs in time (assuming they aren't pushed aside for the majority of the market by high powered Cortex-A9 class devices.)

Motorola abuses their customers by effectively making their devices closed (behavior that resulted in the GPLv3) and this provides -no- benefit to the end user, only Motorola. I could see the same thing happening to a MeeGo device.

My issue lies less with the platforms being closed, and far more with being prohibitively locked down by default.