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● 03.06.08

●● Will Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Tablets Soon Be Infected by Mono, XAML? What About Qt?

Posted in GNOME, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Patents at 12:17 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Whose side is Nokia on anyway?

The latest news about Nokia and Microsoft we last covered yesterday and it is worrying to discover that not only Symbian-based handsets will be affected. According to LinuxDevices, Nokia’s Maemo-based (Debian derivative with GTK) Internet tablets — or MIDs as Intel would probably call them — are to be affected as well.

=> covered yesterday | ↺ affected as well

The Finnish mobile-phone giant will add Silverlight support to Symbian S60 smartphones, Series 40 devices, and Linux-based Nokia Internet tablets, it said.

The trouble here is not only the move away from Web standards, but also the licensing restrictions which come with Mono and Silverlight (or Moonlight). Remember attempts to put Mono on LiMo, at spec-level? Curious minds must also consider the possibility that Nokia will try to shove Microsoft’s lockinware or patentware into Qt, which it now owns. KDE ought to keep an eye on Nokia’s recent and future flirts with Microsoft.

=> attempts to put Mono on LiMo

Another short article worth mentioning is about Microsoft ‘bribing’ the Library of Congress with what seems like goodwill, but is actually a case of seizing more control.

=> ↺ short article | seems like goodwill

News Analysis: Does Adobe pay its customers to be customers? Microsoft does.

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I won’t get too smarmy about the deal, which could be viewed as Microsoft paying for Silverlight customers. But Microsoft is paying for a big customer, and one that will deliver lots of payback.

We wrote some more about this fiasco in [1, 2, 3]. We still have the British Library and the Boston Public Library to worry about. They are also among Microsoft’s agents of monopolisation. Hopefully, Nokia will not become one of them. █

=> 1 | 2 | 3 | agents of monopolisation

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