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[Jayadevan Raja]

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2011/1/7 Saji Nediyanchath <saji89 at gmail.com>

> @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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