Nokia Confirms Symbian Is No Longer Open Source 246
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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:Next (Score:5, Informative)
Rock on, bitches:
http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
Re:just.. wow (Score:2, Informative)
You are still free to play with BSD code. The BSD code is never lost. You just can't tinker with the proprietary stuff Sony put in their machine.
MS used the BSD network stack in earlier versions of windows. The BSD folks were glad they did, because it ment the large number of machines coming onto the internet would have a stable TCP/IP stack that would play well with others. The BSD TCP/IP stack was never lost fo folks who wanted the BSD source code to play with. We all still use it today.