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LendingLendingPosted Oct 13, 2009 3:25 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: Free N900 (KDE.News) by drag Parent article: Free N900 (KDE.News)
There is a difference. Giving away the phones has accounting and tax consequences. Lending them has different consequences. I predict recipients will be invited to return them if they want to, or not if they don't; or maybe to buy them at a sharply-reduced (used) price. There will be some sleight of hand that keeps them out of the warehouse.
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Lending Posted Oct 15, 2009 13:10 UTC (Thu) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
I got the impression that part of the reason for this lending agreement is
that a device (including the software on it) with GSM radio in it has to be certified and given a warranty before it can be sold, and Nokia doesn't have the final version of the software ready for that yet. What we received was a development snapshot made a couple of days before the summit.
Lending Posted Oct 16, 2009 20:42 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
> What we received was a development snapshot made a couple of days before
the summit.
Not couple of days before, according to the Maemo team blog post, it was
I guess the developers need the bleeding edge, hot and fresh. :-)
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