On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > http://www.businessworld.in/bw/2011_02_11_Nokia_MS_Join_Forces_Against_Google_Apple.html > > MeeGo which was a merge of moblin (Intel's Fedora like distro) and Nokia > Maemo (Debian like distro which runs on Nokia N900 and some of its > predecessors) was supposed to be the way forward for Nokia smartphones. > > If they are dumping this and adopting Windows, that's a sad news for Linux > community.
This is a good opportunity for Nokia to understand and compare FOSS with a bad platform. I am sure after some initial pushing to Windows by the new CEO, technical aspects and licensing issues/costs will take Nokia back to FOSS platform. > > Business-wise is it a step back for them? Time will tell. > Few steps back for a big jump forward. -Sudhanwa _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
