Comments on: Nokia will teach us how FOSS should work http://www.infosprite.com/2008/06/15/nokia-will-teach-us-how-foss-works/ vaccuum packed mindless ramblings Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:56:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: schwim http://www.infosprite.com/2008/06/15/nokia-will-teach-us-how-foss-works/comment-page-1/#comment-857 schwim Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:24:03 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=154#comment-857 I too enjoyed that quote. The guy's got a lot of comedy gold in him. I too enjoyed that quote. The guy’s got a lot of comedy gold in him.

]]> By: Dan http://www.infosprite.com/2008/06/15/nokia-will-teach-us-how-foss-works/comment-page-1/#comment-855 Dan Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:07:50 +0000 http://www.infosprite.com/?p=154#comment-855 "In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia had learned in its work with the Maemo developer community, primarily the need to avoid 'forking' code. He said: "Don't make your own version. The original mistake we made was to take the code to our labs, change it and then release it at the last minute. The community had already gone in a different direction than [us], and no-one was pushing it other than [us]. " Priceless! Absolutely prideless! “In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia had learned in its work with the Maemo developer community, primarily the need to avoid ‘forking’ code. He said: “Don’t make your own version. The original mistake we made was to take the code to our labs, change it and then release it at the last minute. The community had already gone in a different direction than [us], and no-one was pushing it other than [us]. ”

Priceless! Absolutely prideless!

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