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Symbian Completes Transition To Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the still-a-contender-or-not dept.

Grond writes "Symbian, maker of the the world's most popular mobile operating system, has completed the transition to a completely open platform months ahead of schedule. While the kernel was opened up last year, the entire platform is now open source, primarily under the Eclipse Public License. A FAQ is available with more information about the platform opening." Adds an anonymous reader, linking to PC Magazine's story on the transition: "By putting Symbian fully in the public domain, the Symbian Foundation is pitting it against Google's Android. Symbian is well known across most of the world, but it's mostly a foreign curiosity in the US, AT&T is the only carrier that currently has a symbian phone in its lineup, the Nokia E71x."

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  1. Seems like overkill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A entire OS and IDE for a glorified vibrator seems like overkill if you ask me.

    1. Re:Seems like overkill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Seriously, that company needs to change its name. I can't read that name without thinking of that weird saddle/vibrator thing.

    2. Re:Seems like overkill by sopssa · · Score: 2, Funny

      A entire OS and IDE for a glorified vibrator seems like overkill if you ask me.

      Not if you really think about it.

      If we all worked together to develop, test and maintain the best possible vibrator in the world, imagine how many girls we would get. If anything, this is what FOSS community should pick up and work on. Girls would be breaking in from doors and windows just to test our thing, and would be so pleased with the experience they would be coming back all the time.

      What we need is WiFi, 3G (for doing it on-the-road), some app that gathers statistics and log data for optimization development and lastly, test subjects.

    3. Re:Seems like overkill by silent_artichoke · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...and lastly, test subjects.

      And there's the problem right there.

  2. Alibi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah but, what an alibi!

    "Boss, I tell ya! I'm just searching for documentation to do my job as a Symbian developer and all this porn comes up! I'm sorry, but it just happens!"

  3. I always want to read that as "Sybian" by Nimey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I personally blame the Internet and rule 34.

    --
    Hail Eris, full of mischief...

    E pluribus sanguinem
  4. Re:Pet peeve: "public domain" by Antidamage · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the coming war between Open Source and Public Domain, no man will be free as in beer.