Very droll
I thought this was a bit late, but then noticed the author was in San Francisco.
Well played :)
After jumping from Microsoft to Nokia, where he promptly dropped Symbian in favor of Microsoft Windows Phone 7, Steven Elop is moving on once again. To Google. On Friday, Google announced that after a change of heart by its board of directors, Elop rather than cofounder Larry Page will take over the company's CEO post from the …
The magic of "fanatic" GPL , the particular license (not BSD) is: It makes the software and openness immortal. You can't pull mysql or openoffice/java tricks with GPL code. Also yes, FSF Lawyers are evil too ;)
That is why there are actual paid PR companies who particularly targets GPL and the person who seems to be boss of it (he isn't), "rms".
Each time you see "but GPL is so fanatic, rms made sexist joke" comment, think about it.
These things doesn't have "uptime" command but I can say my E71 with fraction of WP7 RAM/CPU has been running for 6 days now, without a byte of memory leak or any kind of sluggishness.
As I am a "real" smartphone user since 7650, I also heavily multitask and really push the device to its limits, not to post to youtube but really part of my computing style. Anyway, that gives me 2 days of runtime on 2 years old battery.
Now, just put yourself into my place and likely 100M Symbian owners who -really- weren't been tricked by evil Nokia and think about what we felt when that idiot came up to stage, like an assistant of Balmer and announced Windows Switch, which is 180 degree opposite of Symbian. They also called the entire community dumb, thinking all these people happily running Symbian will switch to Windows!
We really had our April fools early and it wasn't funny.