Nokia responds to iPhone by Promoting 'Open'

An anonymous reader writes "Nokia has responded instantly to the iPhone update-bricking fiasco by running a series of flyposter ads pointing out its own hardware and software is open. While this is to be applauded, it'd be better if companies like this opened their products because they truly believed in openness, rather than to beat the competition over the head. After all, Apple itself used open source with OS X (kernel, web browser) mainly because they knew it would irritate Microsoft. Since that initial blow, they've been a lot less eager to promote open source."

Comments

Re:Companies exist to make money

[Rob T Firefly]

In other news, it would be better if I were spending my Monday morning sitting poolside with a tall glass of iced orange juice and a Game Boy while beautiful women fanned me gently with palm leaves, but it's just not in the cards somehow.

Re:Companies exist to make money

[boyfaceddog]

APPLE ACCOUNTANT: [checking through recent stock purchases] "looks like another bunch of investors want their money to go in the 'good works only' pile."
JOBS: "Yeah, make sure you don't get it mixed up again."
BOTH: [laughing hysterically]

Re:Legal restrictions = unhappy market

[Anonymous Coward]

If you respond to what I said, instead of tossing off another incredibly long-winded non-sequitur, I'll be glad to reply.

Re:irritating ms

[pohl]

Further, after Apple acquired NeXT, it had no obligation to release anything in NeXT's portfolio.

Thank you for adding detail to the history. One minor quibble, though: it was actually NeXT that acquired Apple for a negative 427 million dollars. Wikipedia gets that wrong too.

If the troll posting the original blurb had meant to say that Apple used open source to beat the crap out of Microsoft's OS development plans, then yes, that would be accurate.

So true.