On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Kenneth Loafman<kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> that would be awesome! > > Wonder if Nokia will honor a refund if you swap to Maemo from Windows? > > ...Ken It's the IBM OS/2 story all over again.... a company that doesn't have faith in its own OS is a company doomed to FAIL in the software space. In the case of IBM, you had a division (IBM Software) with an excellent piece of software (32-bit OS/2 2.x - Warp 3.x-4.x) and the rest of the company in bed with Microsoft (specially the IBM PC Co. and Lotus in charge of "fake war hero" Jeff Papows). So the first battle IBM software had to do was convincing the rest of the company on the virtues of its software. In the case of Nokia, you have a good OS (Maemo) that could run across the whole range of the firms' devices, yet the top managers and the "rest of the company" are not sold on the virtues of having its own OS, much less on the faith in open source software. Do you see Microsoft isntalling a non-Microsoft OS on its systems? NO. Do you see Apple vouching the "ease of use" virtues of Windwows Vista or Seven? NO. Yet, we do see the likes of Palm shipping Windows Mobile devices and Nokia shipping a Windows based Netbook. That speaks volumes about the fath of Nokia on its own OS's merits.... "Market share" my *ss. If it was for market share alone Apple would be selling Windows systems... and Sun Microsystems would be promoting Windows Server instead of OpenSolaris... FC _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
