Back from LinuxTag… with a ???? feeling

Following our Europe Open Source in mobile WIPjam tour, here's the first blog in a short series summarizing the tour.

Obviously one can wonder these days about the usefulness of blogging about an event when twitter offers you a better, more multilaterally objective opinion @ TwitterSearch ?

If you do not speak German? You could probably get all posts googletranslated and start wondering about what really happened and what the discussions were all about. And frankly looking at tweets like this one you would be led to believe that there were serious and interesting chats going on when it comes to openness in mobile: @taknil "Back from LinuxTag. This is where Apple is not an open wireless devices found. Did the Android phone is not won." (*)

Unfortunately this is entirely misleading and the debates around openness and mobile were rather scarce… or rather the open-sourceness spirit and mobile did struggle a bit to meet at the show (as a reminder LinuxTag is the largest open source show...

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