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[Jayadevan Raja]

To പ്രവീണ്‍:
So, is the Symbian Foundation lying? What about Android?

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/sjs/android-open-source-model-has-short-circuit

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/60849

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".



2011/1/7 Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com>

> 2011, ജനുവരി 7 8:56 രാവിലെ നു, Jayadevan Raja <jayadevanraja at gmail.com>
> എഴുതി:
> > Apart from Gnu/Linux, isn't Symbian the most free (I mean, least
> > restrictive) OS around?
>
> Some components of the operating system were never released.
>
> > Apparently, Android is less free
> > (
> http://www.tipb.com/2010/06/25/google-remote-kill-android-apps-users-phones/
> ).
>
> That was via android market, you have other app stores for android.
>
> > So, Symbian is a free OS.
>
> How?
>
> > Since like KDE both MeeGo and Symbian natively use QT, won't the works of
> > localisation in KDE help in localising Symbian?
>
> KDE uses QT, every application using QT will need to be localised
> separately. Localising shared libraries will help all applications
> using that library. I don't think MeeGo and Symbian use any KDE
> libraries.
>
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Thanking You,
Jayadevan V
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