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by pavlov 6137 days ago
Huh. Nokia is pretty much the #1 sugar daddy of open source in the mobile tech business. In the past year, they have:

* Bought Symbian and open-sourced the entire OS.

* Bought Trolltech, relicensed the Qt toolkit to LGPL, and developed new Python bindings from scratch.

* Poured investment into Maemo, including 3G phone support (check out the upcoming Nokia N900).

They're just testing the waters with this new Windows 7 notebook. (Did you notice that the screenshots are mostly showing Ovi Suite 2.0 which is Qt-based and will be available on Linux as well?)