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At the Open Source in Mobile conference Ari Jaaksi gave a talk about what Nokia is doing with Open Source and how they increasingly want to adopt the philosophies these communities represent. Nokia does not want to take code, fiddle with it to make it fit inside a product and let that be that, they want to contribute their changes upstream so that everyone in the future can benefit from what was accomplished.
GPL version 3 was talked about, the follies experienced when making the Webkit browsr in S60 devices, the “nightmare” that is known as the email client inside Maemo and how Nokia’s new values were created with the same method and heart of the open source community.
A couple points were made that I feel every geek should know: Linux is not important, the mass market doesn’t care. Open Source is not important, the mass market doesn’t care. Nokia’s goal is not 100% Open Source code, they need to make money too.
[Powerpoint slides in PDF format]
[Via: Flors]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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