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This site is full of fanboys. You can't reason with fanboys, fanboyism is as per def not based on reason. Nokia has never given a rats *** for open source. Open source was just an experiment to see if they somehow could use it to get the upper hand. An experiment that went awfully wrong with the Symbian foundation, and an experiment that didn't quite cut it with Maemo.

Look at the N9. It is based on oss, but is more closed than any Symbian phone. The whole UX is closed source. If Nokia was for oss, they would at least make the UX open source. Who has been in charge of this? Otiris has. Yet he is hailed as one of the big guys on open source on this site. It's funny really. He has dine a great job with the N9, but lets be honest.

IMO the one true hero of open source somehow connected with Nokia, is stskeeps.

Myself, I'm more pragmatic. The true test is whatever works. Open source or closed source? Who cares. The Lumia 800 has a way better browser than the N9. Android is way more open source than Harmattan.
 

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