[smc-discuss] Did Symbian Foundation Mislead Us?

[Anivar Aravind]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Jayadevan Raja <jayadevanraja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>
> See what Symbian Foundation and Nokia said in 2010-02-04:
> http://thehandheldblog.com/2010/02/04/huge-symbian-is-now-free-completely-open-source/
> Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation says “About a
> third of the Android code base is open and nothing more, and what is open is
> a collection of middleware. Everything else is closed or proprietary.
> Symbian on the other hand is one hundred percent open".
>
> See what Symbian Foundation and Nokia said in 2011-04-04:
> http://www.intomobile.com/2011/04/08/nokia-says-symbian-isnt-open-source-just-open-business/
> Nokia is making the Symbian platform available under an alternative, open
> and direct model, 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.
>
> See what Android.com said in 2011-04-06:
> http://www.talkandroid.com/36226-andy-rubin-we-continue-to-be-an-open-source-platform/
> Andy Rubin: “We continue to be an open source platform”

Groklaw Published a great post few weeks back

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110402143136766

After that Nokia admitted it is not Open source
http://symbian.nokia.com/blog/2011/04/04/not-open-source-just-open-for-business/

Anivar