[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 18:58 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), John Dallman wrote:

> But Microsoft and Nokia didn't do at all a good job of
> selling them phones.

Windows Phone was just an inferior product.

When Elop took over at Nokia, work was already well under way on the N9, 
which ran some kind of Debian derivative. He couldn’t kill off the 
project, but he could ensure there was no followup, and that the release 
would be very limited.

As I recall, when it came out, there were rave reviews everywhere it sold. 
And then when stocks ran out, that was the end of it: the potential for a 
successful range of products that could have saved Nokia, killed off by 
its blind allegiance to Microsoft.