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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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  3. Re:Apple contributes a ton to open source. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They also contribute back for all the other technologies you mentioned, and many more like launchd and now blocks/Grand Central.

    Yes, Apple does block Grand Central, now known as Google Voice, on their iPhone store. How great of you to bring this topic back to what the Anonymous Coward way up at the top was referring to!

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