Troll Door, by Irish Typepad

Nokia going after Trolltech and Trolltech going inside Nokia, that’s an interesting move. Somewhat surprising move (I also knew about it by reading the press releases), but sensible in fact. The community reactions have been as interesting. No wonder, in this story you can find all the elements for a [...]

Thanks to Murray, Jeff and others we are seeing now explicitely that critique and self-critique is not necessarely easy in open environments populated by volunteering freedom lovers. You think you are in an open environment where everybody can speak out, until you try to challenge the boundaries. Starting with yourself and your inner boundaries.
Are [...]

Only 48h ago I was wondering GNOME Mobile: where are we? I got fast & precious feedback via Earth, Wind & Fire (can’t link to the improvised lunch shared with 6 GNOME+maemo hackers caught in the SMS corridors). Also some thoughts appeared in my laptop screen, surely pushed by the GNOME vivid source code itself.
I [...]

I’m introducing the GNOME Mobile initiative next Tuesday in the OpenMind conference (open source / open content \ open innovation - Tampere FI). The program is interesting, so interesting that it is clear that I can’t just go with the basics under the arm.
I’m gathering some ideas to open minds. Throw yours for inclusion if [...]

Finland and its 5,3M inhabitants keep surprising me, specially on anything relating to mobiles & Linux (both local inventions). This time is an Internet Tablet (aka MID / Multimedia Internet Device) called EB, manufactured by ElektroBit with Intel and Linux inside. Menlow processor, slide-out keyboard, 3,2Mb camera, GPS, Wlan / Bluetooth / Wimax / HSDPA… [...]