Forget now about labels and conventions: there is not such thing as free software, like there is not such thing as free speech. There are free developers and free speakers, and they are the ones setting the limits of freedom of their products and actions. If they are not free, how free can be the [...]

Check out Nokia’s point of view on What Mobile Users Need and How Open Source Can Help, in the words of Ari Jaaksi (listen - read - slides). Building upstream following community rules is in the heart of this plan. This is what Nokia has been doing, learning and contributing back a lot. Now it’s [...]

Next week I’m flying to San Francisco to take part in the Open Source in Mobile USA conference and spend some extra days meeting people in the Bay Area. My role in product management at Nokia is evolving and I’m taking more responsibilities over open source in general, beyond the maemo development platform.
Ari Jaaksi (director [...]

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 [...]

Jordi Mas and Guillem Jover have been writing recently in the maemo-developers list about the limitations for localization (L10n) in the maemo platform. They are two of my preferred local heroes and they know well what is to be a user of an unsupported language. Being also a Catalan speaker myself, I don’t need to [...]