If Nokia is really serious about being a larger player, they ought to aggressively develop and license the Maemo tablet OS to other manufacturers so that it has an opportunity to become a dominant player in the this growing market niche instead of just another somewhat self-limiting (soon to be abandoned) proprietary sand castle. Perhaps the OS might be set up as an independent entity to manage aggressive development and spread of the platform. Stockholders would get a break in licensing fees dependent upon their status with Nokia currently the 100% stocker owner. If PadsRUs has a tablet device that needs an OS, they could buy X licenses for $Y, or buy stock in the OS and buy X licenses for less that $Y, related to their stock investment in the project. As it is, with other tablets, like Archos, coming out with their own OS/Linux variants, it seems the market is going in the direction of being more and more fractured with lots of reinventing of the same OS wheels over and over. The market would probably benefit having some central organization to manage and develop the OS so that hardware folks could focus more on developing cost effective powerful hardware rather than both hardware and OS/software. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
