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Yes, I agree totally that S60 as a programming platform is horrible. I hope Nokia has learned the lesson with Maemo. Because it's based on a Linux distribution
by TwoSheds 17y ago
Yes, I agree totally that S60 as a programming platform is horrible. I hope Nokia has learned the lesson with Maemo. Because it's based on a Linux distribution which is not that far from your standard desktop Linux, maybe they just aren't able screw that up too badly. To Nokia's credit they are not the open software development freedom-haters that Apple and maybe Palm now too have become.
- davidw 17y agoOTOH, I don't think that Nokia really get open source in the same way that Google does. Doubtless, they have people that do, and their circumstances are quite different: Android can't be doing anything but losing money for Google, and is not really their core business anyway, whereas for Nokia, opening up their crown jewels cannot be an easy process. And Nokia has always been a bit ambivalent about open source. Google seems much clearer about what is and what is not going to be open source, which makes it a little bit easier to predict what they'll do and how they'll do it.