On: Introducing The Microsoft Puppet

[michaelbuckbee]

Would the jobs and open source projects be in a better place if Android was chosen instead?

[spudlyo → michaelbuckbee]

Perhaps. If Android was chosen Nokia could put many of their displaced Symbian developers to work on a Nokia application ecosystem and services platform. This would allow them to use Android without having to pay Google.

[michaelbuckbee → spudlyo]

It's my understanding that the payments to Google are for access to their built-in apps and services (without which an Android phone seems like something less).

[barista → michaelbuckbee]

Exactly. All the pulic traded companies have one and only one goal. To maximize shareholder value or in short to make money.

The open source tools, open standards are all just tools they use to get to the goal and earn some goodwill that they can use to make money.