Nokia Confirms Symbian Is No Longer Open Source 246
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.''"
Re:just.. wow (Score:4, Funny)
In this case, it's kind of hard to see Symbian's brief flirtation with openness as a major loss; but it has always interested me that the OpenBSD guys, whose work lacks the legal terms in favor of remaining open that the GPLed Linux team has, are nevertheless some of the most consistent supporters of fully-open systems outside of the core FSF people.
It's Nokia's code, and they can do what they want; but it is rather hard to see this as anything other than the spasmodic flailing of a dying platform, rather reminiscent of the bipolar behavior Sun was exhibiting shortly before their demise(only more serious, since the odds of Symbian related techologies being installed by the end user on a phone sold as non-Symbian are basically zero, while absolute fuckloads of non-Sun servers and desktops end up running JVMs...)
Re:Hey assholes ! Error 503 Service Unavailable (Score:5, Funny)
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.