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Elop Kills Another Linux-based Platform While Using Patents Against a Third One (Android)

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Summary: Warfare of entryism devised by the convicted monopolist and its agents in other companies

MANY mobile platforms use Linux as their kernel. The leading platform, Android, uses Linux too. Like many others, it is open source (HP recently joined this club to remain competitive).



Nokia is now occupied by Microsoft, so reports about the death of Meltemi are not so shocking. To quote a Linux site: "Meltemi, a Linux-based platform for feature phones, was planned to replace Series 40, the platform that has been around since 1999. Series 40, which runs on some of the top feature phones in the world, has brought a lot of success to Nokia. However, the software was getting old, and Nokia reportedly felt that Series 40 needs to be replaced by something new and Meltemi was that something new."

"This helps challenge Android, which has already filed a formal complaint (to the governments) about Nokia's behaviour under Elop's leadership, specifically the MOSAID move."Here are some more articles that rely on information Reuters received (it gets a lot of intelligence in Helsinki). To quote: "Finnish cellphone maker Nokia has ditched the software it was developing to compete with Google's mass-market Android phones, three sources with direct knowledge of the company's plans said, in its latest move to slash costs."

So what are they betting on? The burning platform which is Windows? This is the metaphoric signing of the death certificate of Nokia. Thank you, Mr. Elop. It's actually worse than than just death because Nokia under Elop is passing its patents to Linux-hostile patent trolls including MOSAID. This helps challenge Android, which has already filed a formal complaint (to the governments) about Nokia's behaviour under Elop's leadership, specifically the MOSAID move. The passage of those patents clearly had Microsoft involvement too, as confessed by Microsoft itself. This is criminal stuff, but nobody is going to be put being bars. Jail is not for people in suits.

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