Mark wrote: > Nokia has the resources to develop its own chips, which it could > easily keep open. That would solve the problems for everybody (meaning > consumers, developers and Nokia). Perhaps. One way to look at this is the old VHS/Beta debate of 20 years ago. Sony's beta was technically the better format, but they kept the screws on too tight when it came to licensing. The VHS folks took an aggressive marketing stance by offering licenses to anyone. VHS won out. Was everything under the VHS format 'open source' -- probably not. There is some market prudence to patent development and maintenance. If you want X (made by Widget) to do this, you can license or buy it from Widgets. Could a similar model be developed and offered by Nokia for the internet tablets/phones? Probably. If they want to follow the VHS model, they should get a couple other hardware players like Samsung (name pulled out of a hat) involved. Both could then offer open source phones/tablets as a product operating on a common open source hardware platform. Then license that technology/product line to other companies and let the IPhone suck serious vacuum. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
