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Nokia on its relationship with the open source community

Nokia on its relationship with the open source community

Posted Mar 15, 2008 13:16 UTC (Sat) by larryn (guest, #3457)
In reply to: Nokia on its relationship with the open source community by Thue
Parent article: Nokia on its relationship with the open source community

That's really odd. My N95 8GB plugs in openSUSE and it recognizes as mass storage device right
away...

Granted Nokia raises their voice with patent which is a big deal to a lot of fans but look at
their involvement with OSS on the Internet Tablet.

The fact that they have less restriction on what you could do with your phone, unlike the
overhpyed iP, I really appreciate that.

If I'm not mistaken, you can't not discuss iPhone SDK on its list, you can't use Opera, any
programming langugage (Pyhon, Java, Perl, Ruby) to write your app. You can't use VoIP app.
Now, I'm not a developer but all of the above you could use with any Nokia phone.


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