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How Nokia Learned To Love Openness

Posted by Soulskill on from the deviant-corporate-practices dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Once Sebastian Nyström laid out the logic of moving to open source, there was very little resistance within Nokia to doing so. I think that's significant; it means that, just as the GNU GPL has been tested in various courts and found valid, so has the logic behind open source — the openness that allows software to spread further, and improve quicker, for the mutual benefit of all. That idea is also increasingly accepted by hard-headed business people: it's become self-evident that it's a better way."

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  1. Re:"Openness" is a strategy for failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    To be fair, a lot of people do prefer Opera to Firefox.

  2. Re:Openess by Hurricane78 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, I wouldn't see a giant advertising company with a small appendage of a search engine and other experimental projects as "friendly". ^^

    It's advertisement that's the base after all. Advertisement and good/honest are rather extreme opposites.

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    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
  3. Re:Openess by Dog-Cow · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Advertisement and good/honest are rather extreme opposites.

    And apparently intelligence and Hurricane78 share the same relationship.

  4. Janis Joplin said it best... by geoffrobinson · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

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    Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.