Jan
14
2009
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 free software to co-exist. Yes, with the LGPL the FSF admits that non-free software exists. [...]
Tags: business, freedom, fsf, gpl, gtk+, lgpl, mobile, Nokia, qt, qtopia, strategy
Jan
06
2009
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 devices such as the Nokia N810 as a toy for geeks.
Maybe this strategy has [...]
Tags: community, free software, freedom, internet tablet, maemo, mobile, n810, Nokia, qtopia