Nokia: Open Source Developers Should Play By Our Rules

“Nokia has been involved with open source for several years.
Notably, it used Linux and several open source code libraries as
the foundation of Maemo, the operating system for its line of
Internet tablet devices. To be fair, Nokia has also contributed to
a number of open source projects in return. But if Jaaski thinks
that gives Nokia a right to dictate terms–sorry, to ‘educate
developers’–I think he’s in for a rude awakening.

“Not everything needs to be open, and there’s certainly still
room for proprietary software in the world. But when it comes to
development platforms, the competition is increasingly stiff. As
John De Goes, president of tools vendor N-Brain, told Javalobby
just last week, ‘The only commercial development tools that can
survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools…'”

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