02.03.11
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Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 11:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Adnaan Ahmad from Berenberg Bank stands in the way of MeeGo as he advises Nokia to become a servant of Microsoft
Nokia had lobbied against Ogg before it got some more sanity and became one of the biggest contributors to Linux (the kernel, but also to other packages like Qt). Nokia came to the conclusion that Linux was the future of mobile, but by the time it reached this realisation, Google had already beaten Nokia to it and hit the jackpot with Android. Nevertheless, Intel and Nokia carry on undeterred with Maemo/Moblin/MeeGo (Maemo is still actively promoted by Nokia) and there is a MeeGo Summit planned to take place in Finland.
We have deep concerns about Nokia’s appointment of a CEO from Microsoft and we wrote about the issue in posts that include:
- If You Can’t Beat Them, Hijack Them (Microsoft Joins Nokia and It Already Shows)
- Linux Battle in Mobile Phones Becomes Primarily Legal, Not Technical, Due to Software Patents
- Taking Over Linux, by Proxy
- Microsoft Passes More of Its Executives to the MSBBC. What About Nokia?
- Microsoft President Quits, But is Nokia the Next Victim?
- Microsoft Insiders Galore: BBC, Nokia, Others Already Damaged by Microsoft Hires
- Linspire/Ballnux in Tablets; HP Possibly Experiments With Vista 7 in Slate After Abandoning It, Then Hiring From Microsoft
- New Article Says Nokia Might be Bought by Microsoft After Appointing Microsoft President as CEO
- Entryism Watch: Yahoo! Keeps Being Abducted by Microsoft Executives, HP Cancels Android Projects After CEO Appointment From SAP
- As Expected, Nokia and HP Betray Linux Under Microsoft-sympathetic New Leadership
- Head of Microsoft Romania Quits, Entryism Revisited
- Microsoft’s Favourite ‘Reporters’ Are Attacking Nokia, Pushing it Into Microsoft’s Arms
- Will Elop Choose the Future (Linux) or His Past (Microsoft) for Nokia?
A writer whom we consider to be a jerk (because of his rudeness, not to mention many pro-MAFIAA and anti-FOSS articles since 2006 at the least) echoes the message of Berenberg Bank’s Adnaan Ahmad and uses the headline “Marry Microsoft, analyst tells Nokia”:
Microsoft was Elop’s previous employer, of course. Leaving aside the exclusive Microsoft partnership, which has its merits but risks looking like a “Coalition of the Losers”, the rest of it isn’t bad advice.
It remains to be seen what Elop meant by joining an “ecosystem”. Or rather, whose “ecosystem” was he referring to? If pressure is kept by pointing out his conflict of interest, it may help paralyse him in the sense that it may keep him away from Microsoft. █
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