Tag Archives: Nokia

Newlyweds: Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin

Posted on 15 February, 2010 by Stef

This is good news for mobile free software (or open source, as you wish to call it): Maemo and Moblin joined forces today.  I had lots of expectations for Maemo, but so far Nokia hasn’t pushed it enough. This merge … Continue reading →

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Mobile phone markets are designed to split our community

Posted on 6 April, 2009 by Stef

Apple’s iPhone biggest innovation is its mobile app store: for the first time it allowed installing software on the mobile device with the convenience of any modern GNU/Linux distribution. Like in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, installing software is just a matter … Continue reading →

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Will Nokia become FLOSS best friend?

Posted on 17 March, 2009 by Stef

Google’s power is making more people concerned that their motto ‘do no evil’ is not reassuring enough. Fabrizio Capobianco’s blog post summarizes the concerns of the Winston Smith Project. Google is scary because it controls the access point to the … Continue reading →

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Nokia and the L of smart freedom

Posted on 14 January, 2009 by Stef

The good news today is that Nokia relicensed the Qt (pr: cute) libraries under the GNU Lesser General Public License, demonstrating that the mobile ecosystem is where things happen. The GNU Lesser GPL is a license that allows non-free and … Continue reading →

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The iPhone killer existed before the iPhone

Posted on 6 January, 2009 by Stef

And Nokia didn’t know about it. The Linux-based Maemo platform had all the potential to radically change the cell phone landscape long before Apple came out with the iPhone. But Nokia preferred to be ultra-conservative and marketed the Internet Tablet … Continue reading →

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Cross-platform and interoperability is the key

Posted on 11 September, 2008 by Stef

When it comes to connecting people, the first thing you need to do is use the same language.’  That doesn’t mean force everybody to use your language, because that’s what dictators do (and dictators are wiped out by history). To … Continue reading →

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Make Funambol work on QTopia, get paid and get a free phone

Posted on 31 January, 2008 by Stef

Why wait until summer to code and earn $3,000? Funambol has just announced the availability of a $3,000 bounty to develop a plugin to allow Funambol to run on Qtopia devices. Trolltech, the makers of Qtopia, was just acquired this … Continue reading →

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Nokia goes for Trolltech

Posted on 28 January, 2008 by Stef

Now, this is surprising: Nokia acquired Trolltech, makers of toolkit QT, GTK’s competitor. What surprises me is that Nokia is using GTK on its tablet products (the 770, N800 and N810). So now Nokia has a stake in many platforms: … Continue reading →

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Nokia contro il W3C, scontro sui brevetti software

Posted on 11 December, 2007 by Stef

Ho l’impressione che Stephan Wenger di Nokia voglia dare una spallata al WorldWideWeb Consortium (W3C) impegnato nella definizione del prossimo standard HTML5. Teniamo a mente che tra tutti gli enti di standardizzazione, W3C è l’unico a prevedere in una policy … Continue reading →

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