2008/8/14 Jack Wootton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/8/14 Jack Wootton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> I think perhaps this depends on how you choose to categorise what has >>> (not) happened to the s60 webkit port. I choose to view it at a >>> company granularity, here's why: It is the same company, the same >>> legal entity, the same policies, same guidelines, same work ethics >>> etc. >> >> If you actually believe that, you probably don't know the big >> corporate world too well. > > I know it pretty well. I know it well enough to understand that most > multinationals try extremely hard to standardise corporate processes, > tools, methods and approaches. Multinationals really do expend a lot > of time and effort in standardisation of many areas of said > organisation.
Emphasis on _try_. ;) >> I'm not saying Nokia has handled the S60 port well (I've heard >> otherwise), but certainly they are within their rights in not >> maintaing open sourced code[1]. Blackmailing them with empty threats >> about unrelated contributions is hardly going to buy you better >> support in any case... > > Er..., blackmailing? Who said anything about blackmailing? Could you > point out where any blackmailing occurred? > Er..., threats? Who said anything about threats? Could you point out > where any threats occurred? You said: "Before Nokia can submit anything back to the WebKit community they'll have to:" [list of things like apologies etc] Sounds like threatening to refuse contributions to me, but you might of course mean "I hope that nokia would..." with that statemen. > I think you've got a little carried away here. You did too with hijacking this thread for ranting ;) -- Kalle Vahlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by http://movial.fi Interesting stuff at http://syslog.movial.fi _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
