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Bruce had a good comment to this discussion. He call it a bright line system. He says: " The key is knowing how to draw bright lines between different parts of the system. That's a legal term, and in this case it means a line between the Free Software and the rest of the system, that is "bright" in that the two pieces are very well separated, and there is no dispute that one could be a derivative work of the other, or infringes on the other in any way. All of the Free Software goes on one side of that line, and all of the lock-down stuff on the other side."

This exactly the same thing I discussed in my article on our experiences and learning on building consumer products with open source. Section 5.2: "As some components are available only as closed source components, we need to mix open source and proprietary code. This mixing calls for proper architecture management to manage different licensing rules within the product code."

We understood this, of course, from the day one. And it is still the way to do it. Others, like Ubuntu, follows the same rule very well indeed.

...related to the article found here.

I just arrived in Berlin to participate the Handsets World conference. (The Netherlands just scored a goal, by the way!)


I'll have a keynote talk tomorrow, and a panel session. My talk is going to be about our vision -- and how open source can help.






And now it is 2-0!

Thanks for the feedback to my previous post!! I merely described the current situation.

We’ve been busy lately! Next software releases and products, architecture works with the Trolls, browser work with Mozilla, and so forth. It’s already almost June and I’m thinking we just got over Xmas. It’s good to realize that in about 4 weeks, nights start to get longer and days shorter here in the Northern hemisphere. The Earth rotates towards the next winter! Get ready!

This is a bit old news. We announced the WIMAX version on the N810 in CTIA already 2 weeks ago. And we received a CTIA WIRELESS 2008® E-TECH AWARD for the best Fashion & Lifestyle Product.

Wow, I feel pretty fashionable now!

We are also making progress with some longer term plans and thoughts. We plan to make the maemo platform even more powerful and extend its capabilities further. In addition to GTK+, we intend to provide a Qt-based application development environment to the maemo platform. We will therefore hire people with knowledge of GTK+/C and/or Qt/C++.

I’ll keep you posted. Take a look at the Nokia jobs and the maemo.org, too.