Nokia and GNOME


and Maemo!

Congratulations to the Nokia folks and all the tortured GNOME dudes who had to keep quiet about this while they were working on it. :-)

I have a funny story about Nokia. At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mataró, I met Jesus Climent, a rip-snortingly funny Debian dude who works for Nokia. We took to calling him Baby Jesus, not just because we have so many other in-jokes about Baby Jesus, but because he is so terminally cute.

Anyway, Jesus had a pre-release Nokia phone which was stunningly different - distinctly bold, even - from any other phone we’d seen before.

A few months later, I was sitting in a crowded cinema, watching the pre-film advertising. Lo and behold, Nokia’s new fashion range was advertised, and I recognised one of them from Mataró: “Oh look, that’s Baby Jesus’ phone!”

There were some… confused… looks from the people around us.

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