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wmarone	2010-10-21 , 16:33
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Originally Posted by MeeGoTV

Yes Jobs is a blowhard - however, consider:

Maemo has binary closed parts as well.

And people have given Nokia well deserved crap for it.

MeeGo/Intel
"we at Intel believe that software-related technology should continue to be afforded the opportunity to obtain patent protection."
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/...tent_intel.htm

Intel does not speak for MeeGo, and frankly Intel is wrong. Software patents are great if you're a patent troll or looking to keep new competitors from rising in the market. They're bad if you actually want to innovate.

Open source has closed parts and is funded by software patent holders that do not share the core high value modules.

This sentence makes no sense.

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