Thread: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-03-02 , 22:41
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#205
Originally Posted by exo View Post
Freedom is great but it seems that there still is no consumer-level free platform that can match the user experience provided by the less free commercial solutions
Arguably Android gets close as possible without being as Free, nor as open, as most Linux distros (never mind their NIH syndrome.) But this isn't the software's fault. Suppose, for instance, if Google had gone with more standard *nix style base instead of the formerly proprietary blob that is Android?

and it seems the vast majority of people prefer that and restrict themselves to everything that isn't a restrictive OSS license because the benefit simply isn't there (at least for them).
"Restrictive" and "OSS" do not belong in the same sentence. Anyone who tells you they do, doesn't understand them.