Re: Debian-based gadget: Nokia 770

[Martin Dickopp <martin@zero-based.org>]

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org> writes:

> On 20050525T190152+0200, Martin Dickopp wrote:
>> Just in case not everybody is aware of it anyway: Nokia is one of the
>> very few European companies in favor of software patents in the EU.
>> In fact, Nokia has done a lot of lobbying for software patents in
>> Brussels.  You might want to take that into account when deciding
>> whether to buy from Nokia or a different vendor.
>
> Nokia has no official position; some people inside Nokia do, and there
> are people in both camps inside Nokia.

Nokia's position may not be official, but Tim Frain (head of Nokia's
patent department) has never missed an opportunity to ask politicians to
support software patents.  To the best of my knowledge, no Nokia employee
has lobbied equally massively against software patents.

Since I cannot know what happens inside Nokia, I judge the company by
what it does when its employees communicate with the outside world.

Martin