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How Nokia and Linux Can Live Together

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the playing-nice dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Ari Jaaski of Nokia is concerned that the Linux developers need to learn to live with DRM, SIM-locking, and 'IPR'. But they won't. Fortunately, Nokia can do all that it wants with Linux, while being GPL2 and even GPL3-compatible. The key is knowing how to draw bright lines between different parts of the system. That's a legal term, and in this case it means a line between the Free Software and the rest of the system, that is 'bright' in that the two pieces are very well separated, and there is no dispute that one could be a derivative work of the other, or infringes on the other in any way. All of the Free Software goes on one side of that line, and all of the lock-down stuff on the other side." A very interesting read, and a good how-to for any company that is looking to use GPLed code as part of their products, or even just make their products to be hacker-friendly.

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  1. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    .....Pauline is my sister...wait a sec....

  2. How Nokia and Linux Can Live Together by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nokia and Linux can live together by Linux and all its users fucking killing themselves. You nerds are the reason my dog is dead after the local Linux 'support group' came around and stuck it's severed head through my mailbox because I dared to tell you delinquents that I preferred using Windows instead of your crappy illegal hacker OS. You fucking nerds couldn't face a 6' 4" built guy like me man to man so you killed my fucking dog. Fuck you, I hope you rot in hell.

    1. Re:How Nokia and Linux Can Live Together by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      someone mod him -1, flamebait, troll PLEASE Yeah, we really needed that pointless note of shrill, oversincere urgency; like anyone was going to take it seriously in the five seconds before it would have got modded down regardless.

      And as trolls go, at least it was so over the top implausible that it was funny. I mean, everyone knows it's the FreeBSD users that kill their critics' dogs, not Linux fanboys. Mind you, Linus Torvalds did eat my hamster, the bastard.