Open Source is Magic, Not an Excuse For Laziness

Nokia wants open source developers to "embrace the old-school cell phone business model of DRM, Intellectual Property, SIM Locks, and subsidies. Nokia expects the open source developers to do their work for them and make them an OS, albeit an OS that goes against the Open Source philosophy. In the article, it was said that Nokia had once tried to spin its own version, but that the community had moved ahead of them in the time it took to do that. Nokia needs to embrace Apple's model of open source: take the original project, then write some third party drivers and add-ons that can be laid over the original project. These add-ons can have DRM. These add-ons can have Intellectual Property. Now, I am not saying that Apple's model is perfect (their version of most of their open source is a little behind), but it works, and Nokia has the chance to improve that model by allowing the open part of the project be updated under the open source model. Nokia may have to invest a little work in this (Kernel modules have to be recompiled with a major kernel update), but they have everything they need, and with a little intelligence, they can make the system work on their side.