Opensource
So people keep pointing me to opensource.nokia.com and saying “Hey Mike, you should be into this, look at the Nokia open source stuff”. Lets see, Python points to the Python binary download release, and I think the series 60 browser page might be an advertisement attempting to get licensees to use the Nokia browser because it now uses the Apple webkit core. So yea, nice try. No I’m not interested. Open source is not about taking open source stuff and integrating it into your proprietary offerings. That’s better than top to bottom proprietary. However it kills the feedback loop. You only get 5% of the benefit if you don’t rerelease what you’ve done for others to build on. I don’t have time for halfassed efforts like that. Pathetic. Good idea though, I hope they spin again with this one and do it right. I’m willing to look again when the source code goes up.
