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Story: Nokia urges Linux developers to learn business
Jaaksi forgets one thing
Mr. Jaaksi forgets one important thing: open-source developers aren't working for Nokia. Sure Nokia has business rules. So does General Motors. And Nokia's business rules are exactly as relevant to an open-source developer as GM's business rules are to a consultant writing a point-of-sale system for 7-11 (small one-stop market/convenience store), ie. not at all. Mr. Jaaksi sounds a lot like GM finding they have a problem adapting 7-11's POS system for their car dealerships and complaining that the consultant who wrote it really should have learned GM's business rules and made sure 7-11's POS system conformed to them so GM would have an easier time of it.
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