Nokia and free software. Or why Android was not the "preferred bidder"..

Posted by scrubs on Mar 18, 2011 3:55 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Gary Richmond
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This year seems to been continuing where last year left off: Oracle/Sun, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Ubuntu and Wayland/Xorg. Now, it’s the turn of Nokia and Microsoft. When I heard the news that Nokia was switching from the Symbian OS to Windows 7 for their smartphones my first reaction was: “another Microsoft patents land grab” but this article is not about the proverbial beast of Redmond but about why Nokia chose it over Android and more importantly, given the increasing convergence of laptops, smartphones and tablets, answering the question: just how free is Android and what is the relationship with GNU/Linux?—and I suspect that I’ll be needing my asbestos delicates.

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