Sun and corporate open source
Sun and corporate open source
Posted May 2, 2008 11:05 UTC (Fri) by Jaffa (guest, #4327)Parent article: Sun and corporate open source
This is very similar to the situation with Nokia's Maemo-based Internet Tablets (e.g. the 770, N800, N810 and N810W). It's an open source base but with very little community involvement, exactly because Nokia want too much control. I wrote something about this, including what I've termed the "open source triangle": Community involvement, Openness and Control are all pulling in different directions: http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/jaffa/2008/04/20/mae... Of course, OpenSolaris and OO.o are much bigger projects - and more important to Sun - than Maemo is to Nokia, but it's interesting to see both these big companies have very similar problems.