What Nokia’s Windows move means for Open Source

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

“When Nokia announced that it was going to use
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 for its smartphones some people saw
this is a great move. Other folks, like yours truly, saw Nokia and
Microsoft partnering being as dumb as betting that the Pittsburgh
Pirates will win the 2011 World Series. But, what do Nokia’s
open-source partners think of this move? I asked, and as you might
guess, they’re not happy.

“Jim Zemlin, head of The Linux Foundation tried to make the best
of it, “The Linux Foundation is disappointed in Nokia’s decision
today to choose Microsoft as the primary platform for its mobile
phones. Tough times give birth to difficult decisions that we don’t
always agree with, but open source is–at its core–about
choice. We believe that open source software is more than a sum of
its parts, and the market is currently bearing that out. The Linux
Foundation is here to enable collaboration among its members and
the Linux community, and we invite participation in MeeGo [an
embedded Linux for smartphones and other devices that was supported
by Intel and Nokia] and any of our other many projects and
programs.””

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