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Nokia Confirms Symbian Is No Longer Open Source
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.''"
To ensure that it really dies, instead of some roque developers actually making it an viable option?
Rock on, bitches:
http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
This is exactly what happens when a Microsoft mole takes over a company. Past example:
-Rick Belluzo: while at HP, he announced to the press that HP would be "dumping HPUX" in favour of Windows NT (it wasn't true, and it did cause a panic of sorts). Windows NT 3.1, no less. Later, the mole moved on to SGI where he did precisely that: threw IRIX in the trash and attempted to shove Windows NT where it didn't belong. After thoroughly destroying SGI, he then moved to the Borg Cube itself, I'm sure with a big fat reward.
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.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
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.
I'm sure they'll get around to fixing it right after they get around to fixing Slow down cowboy! It has been 3 hours, 26 minutes, and 12 seconds since you last posted a comment.
Some real rocket surgeons working at Slashdot, it seems.
Odd... that's almost exactly the amount of time it takes between when I hit the preview button, and when it finally lets me hit submit.
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