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Google Code blacklists Mozilla Public License
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| The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is the latest casualty of Google's decision
| to remove open-source licenses from its popular code hosting service.
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| The search giant has said Google Code is no longer accepting projects
| licensed under MPL, although existing MPL-licensed code is allowed to stay.
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| The move comes two years after Google Code launched, when MPL was one of just
| seven licenses Google allowed developers to use. Others included Apache, BSD
| and the Free Software Foundation's GPL and LGPL.
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| Google's MPL ban follows the block on FSF's Affero GPL. That decision's seen
| a number of projects abandon Google Code for rival hosts.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/25/googlecode_bans_mpl/
So Google fights choice.
Symbian open-source strategy explained at OSCON
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| The Symbian platform, he says, is at the top of its game. Over 200 million
| Symbian-based devices have been sold, and 77 million of those were in the
| last year alone. All of the top five handset makers sell Symbian-based
| products, and Forsyth says that demand for Symbian just keeps growing. The
| platform has gone through what he calls a period of "architectural renewal"
| which he claims has placed it in a very strong position relative to other
| mobile platforms.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080725-symbian-open-source-strategy-explained-at-oscon.html
Let them have 'Symbroid'. At least LiMo is still around, proving the /VALUE/ of
diversity and choice. Android wasn't as free as LiMo (Google is still a
proprietary software company).
Yesterday:
Android, Symbian Expected To Become One OS
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| Nokia-owned Symbian and Google-created Android are destined to be combined to
| provide a single open source operating system for smartphones, an analyst
| firm said Thursday.
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| The merger of the two operating systems will begin within three to six
| months, driven mostly by the fact that Nokia and Google are pursuing similar
| open source strategies with their respective technology, J. Gold Associates
| said in a research note.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209600592
Symbian hints at Google truce for unified platform
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| A single software platform spanning all smartphones would open the floodgates
| to a vast number of applications for business and consumers. If it integrated
| with the PC platform so much the better, allowing developers large and small
| to create software once for millions, eventually billions, of devices. The
| quest for the unified platform has dominated handset news for a couple of
| years, and now there are signs that the two more powerful candidates left
| standing – Symbian and Android – could come together. Google aims to control
| a future unified mobile software architecture by harnessing the interest in
| Linux and open source, to create its as-yet uncommercialized Android system.
| It suffered a severe setback when Nokia took control of the Symbian operating
| system, the most widely installed on high end phones, and put it into an open
| source Foundation.
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http://www.arcchart.com/blueprint/show.asp?id=493&qtabs=99999
Recent:
Some learning to do?
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| Companies like Nokia need to learn the open source way of working. This means
| not only fulfilling the letter of GPL, LGPL etc. but also the spirit. In my
| mind this means integrating the corporate work with the open source
| community, participating, contributing back the code, building the code in
| open projects and not only releasing it when mandatory, not forking, etc.
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http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2008/06/some-learning-to-do.html
Nokia does not get it
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| You better start playing by the rules because else the other companies might
| do it faster than Nokia and you will lose the opportunity. Oh: And just as a
| remind: when you go open source, you must play by the rules by honoring the
| license of the software.
|
| Really, it’s sad to listen to things like this from someone controlling the
| company who owns Trolltech I am sure that the vice-president of companies
| like Red Hat wouldn’t say nonsense like the above. But it’s no surprise
| coming from someone in a company that seems to be absolutely in favor of
| software patents in Europe according to FFII.
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http://edulix.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/nokia-does-not-get-it/
Oh please, educate me, Nokia.
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| Nokia: “We want to educate open-source developers."
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| Oh please, educate me, Nokia. Actually, never-mind. Kiss my ass instead. BTW,
| I call it free software, not "open source".
|
| Nokia: "There are certain business rules [developers] need to obey, such as
| DRM, IPR [intellectual property rights], SIM locks and subsidised business
| models.”
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| You think I need obey? I prefer civil disobedience. DRM? Why would I obey
| your plan to steal my freedom? "Intellectual property"? What's that? There is
| Copyright law and Patent law but to my knowledge, there is no "intellectual
| property" law.
|
| It's a good idea to Boycott Nokia. They have an exceedingly imperious and
| arrogant attitude. Didn't they just buy Trolltech? Whichever pinhead from
| Nokia wrote this garbage just did a disservice to Trolltech. It makes
| Trolltech look like obedient "open source" developers who are in the process
| of being re-educated by Nokia.
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http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Nokia_does_not_get_it#comment-3323
Ari Jaaksi of Nokia Wants to Educate the Linux Community
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| But perhaps the community has some education for Jaaksi and Nokia. Jaaksi
| hosted me at a Nokia dinner in 2000, he's a nice guy and has been interested
| in Linux for a long time. But Nokia's barking up the wrong tree this time,
| because Nokia can do everything it wants with DRM, IPR, and SIM locks without
| bothering the Linux developers about it - and both Nokia and the Linux
| developers will like it better that way. It's surprising that Nokia doesn't
| understand that at this late date.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/11/43198
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