Nokia seems to think that the open source developer community needs to adapt to the ways of commercial software vendors, not the other way around, Neil McAllister reports. “To be fair, Nokia has also contributed to a number of open source projects in return. But if [Ari] Jaaski thinks that gives Nokia a right to dictate terms — sorry, to “educate developers” — I think he’s in for a rude awakening,” McAllister explains in Nokia: Open source should play by our rules. “Nokia assumes that the solution is to “educate” the open source community, but not everyone agrees.” Google, for instance, is betting that the mobile market will follow the pattern we’ve seen on desktop PCs: connectivity and free access are more important than ownership of software, McAllister writes. Software Development