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2013-09-08 , 07:41
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Originally Posted by tortoisedoc View Post
Funny, I do not know but do you also see any resemblance in Jolla / NOKIA story here?
To be honest, I see far more parallels to this story in the Danger Inc-Microsoft story than I see in the Nokia-Jolla story.

Originally Posted by panjgoori View Post
Nokia was working on a tablet back in 2010 but elop killed at on day one he joined Nokia. i wonder what board of directors of Nokia were doing when Elop was killing Nokia.

http://mynokiablog.com/2013/09/06/in...he-became-ceo/
We're left only trying to imagine how things might have been conducted.

Originally Posted by zimon View Post
I hope Jolla gets it right, FOSS all the way, but if not, Replicant Android is the better way to get possibly NSA-free operating system:

http://replicant.us/

For example for Android Samsung Galaxy S3:
http://redmine.replicant.us/projects.../wiki/GalaxyS3

Only way to get NSA-free operating system, is to have 100% FOSS OS. Then there still is the hardware backdoors for NSA, but hopefully with a firewall settings those can be blocked.
You forgot services (Gmail, Maps, etc. Foursquare, your carrier's SMS and voicemails, etc.).
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