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Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEOStephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEOPosted Sep 14, 2010 8:20 UTC (Tue) by macson_g (subscriber, #12717)Parent article: Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO
IMHO this is a very good news not only for Nokia but also for Free Software in general.
Nokia's offering was lagging behind the competitors in recent years and they realise it and they doing what they can.
First thing they did was to embrace Free Software.
Second was ditching Symbian, but before they did it - they took their part in opensourcing it.
Then: acquisition of Trolltech and releasing Qt under GPL3, introduction of fully-open telephony stack (oFono) and continued work on Linux-based mobile OS. And they are not shy to use (and release) GPLed softwareL.
It looks like the last bit they're missing to become 'geeks favourite phone manufacturer' is vigorous management. I hope that the new guy - albeit of non-FOSS-friendly background - will do the job.
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Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 14, 2010 8:31 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
Qt is _L_GPL even.
Stephen Elop to join Nokia as President and CEO Posted Sep 19, 2010 11:36 UTC (Sun) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link] Second was ditching SymbianThey have in no way ditched Symbian. Nokia are shipping new phones running Symbian, with more in the pipeline.
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