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How can a system that is not backed by a company provide the level of security and guarantee the end user experience required?
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Remember, Linux from their perspective is basically an OS kernel. The rest of the code would be Nokia's to maintain and support. It's hardly a "free" thing. |
Mate, but a kernal without a thought-through security concept is still like a house without a front-door. Just expecting that NOKIA and others will add that in a reliable way on top of the kernal is like trusting that your neighbours will make sure nobody enters your house.
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But for the general public...
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From the end-user's perspective, it'd still look and feel like a Series 60 device. |
So why Linux kernal then in the first place? Ah, probably because they admit that they cannot write a kernal... what a confession.
Yep, I am quite biased against Linux. For me the believe that someone provides the core component as a free thing is just misleading. There is a very strong commercial interest behind the avoidance of paying i.e. the 12 US$ for Windows CE (I don't know what vendors pay for Symbian). And that is from my persective only ever working over a short period of time to drive down internal costs. Isn't all future oriented invention rather based on the progressive idea to increase revenue instead? Someone is giving up on this, I would say...