Nokia has such a bizarre relationship with Open Source tech in general. Their internet tablets are great (I own the N800), and they've done a reasonably good job in fostering a vibrant and productive community around Maemo.
On the other side of the coin their S60 handsets aren't open source (obviously, since they are running Symbian), and have been in fact MORE locked down over the last couple of years (in the name of 'security' with their Symbian Signed crap).
I think what we see with things like the Ogg oddity is that, like every large corporation, the left hand often doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
In Nokia you've got the S60 faction, the general handset (S40) faction, the web tablet guys, the content guys (working on Ovi, N-Gage, etc)... all of them are doing their own projects, and all of these projects are pretty good individually (with their share of flaws, of course), but they don't seem to talk to each other much.
It's almost like watching a new version of IBM in the 80's!
Nokia has such a bizarre relationship with Open Source tech in general. Their internet tablets are great (I own the N800), and they've done a reasonably good job in fostering a vibrant and productive community around Maemo.
On the other side of the coin their S60 handsets aren't open source (obviously, since they are running Symbian), and have been in fact MORE locked down over the last couple of years (in the name of 'security' with their Symbian Signed crap).
I think what we see with things like the Ogg oddity is that, like every large corporation, the left hand often doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
In Nokia you've got the S60 faction, the general handset (S40) faction, the web tablet guys, the content guys (working on Ovi, N-Gage, etc)... all of them are doing their own projects, and all of these projects are pretty good individually (with their share of flaws, of course), but they don't seem to talk to each other much.
It's almost like watching a new version of IBM in the 80's!
-olly