[smc-discuss] സിംബിയന്‍

[Saji Nediyanchath]

@Jayadevan,
Nobody is lying... It just seems that you're on old news, the new things can
be read at-
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/28/symbian-open-source-irrelevancy/
   and
http://blog.symbian.org/2010/12/17/symbian-foundation-is-completing-its-transition-to-a-licensing-body

*The second link above is a post from the official Symbian blog.*

The important part is-
"
Now Symbian is delivering itself another blow—this time self-inflicted. The
Symbian Foundation, which hosts all the open-source code, bug fixes, and
documentation for the OS, is shutting down its
websites<http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-to-shut-down-all-their-websites/>on
December 17.
*The Symbian OS will still technically be open-source, it will just be
impractical for many developers to look at it or improve it.* According to a
post<http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down>on
the Symbian Foundation’s developer blog, the open-source code and
other
information currently on its websites will be made “available in some form,
most likely on a DVD or USB hard drive upon request to the Symbian
Foundation. . . . A charge may be levied for media and shipping.”
"

2011/1/7 Jayadevan Raja <jayadevanraja at gmail.com>

> 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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