Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM

superglaze writes in to note that according to Nokia's software chief, its plans for open source include getting developers to accept things like DRM, commercial IP rights, and SIM locks. "Jaaksi admitted that concepts like these 'go against the open-source philosophy,' but said they were necessary components of the current mobile industry. 'Why do we need closed vehicles? We do,' he said. 'Some of these things harm the industry but they're here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional issues, but this dialogue is very much needed. As an industry, we plan to use open-source technologies, but we are not yet ready to play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round too.'"

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[larry bagina]

Nokia is the (recent) corporate overlord of TrollTech, of QT fame. Sounds like they may be adding DRM to QT in the near future. If so, we could fork it (being GPL... the BSD license wouldn't allow us that freedom). But who knows what other surprises may be lurking in the source code. And GNOME, with the stink of Mono/Novell/MS/OOXML isn't any safer. Year of the linux desktop? X.org development is stagnant and the two most popular desktop environments are infected.