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Nokia Confirms Symbian Is No Longer Open Source

Posted by Unknown on from the two-plus-two-equals-closed dept.

theweatherelectric noted an article on the H. From the article "Nokia has confirmed that it has closed the source code for the Symbian smartphone operating system. It says that despite it describing its new model for Symbian smartphone operating system development as 'open and direct' the 'open' part did not refer to 'open source' but to being 'open for business'. The 'open and direct' model is designed, according to Nokia, to 'enable us to continue working with the remaining Japanese OEMs and the relatively small community of platform development collaborators we are already working with.''"

3 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why close it now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To ensure that it really dies, instead of some roque developers actually making it an viable option?

  2. Re:Seriously? by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are they TRYING to lose relevance?

    Yes. And the exec that is making the calls is going to get out with a nice golden parachute and get all his Microsoft Stock Options back, while the people who own Nokia Stock are getting screwed.

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  3. Re:just.. wow by Nursie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And those some would be wrong.

    More free for the first party that gets the code, much less free for third parties that are given binaries later.

    RMS is a zealot on this, it's true. But I applaud people who release GPL code because they are giving everyone the continuing right to learn and to tinker with the fruits of their labour, not just the first party. I also applaud people that release BSD code as it is very generous, but as an end user it is frequently less useful.

    I am not free to tinker with my playstation 3, but there is BSD code in there.