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Going Open Source Not Enough To Attract Non-Paid Developers To Symbian
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| Company blog Nokia Conversations has a piece indicating that it may not be
| that simple. The post quotes Nokia developer Janne Jalkanen (who apparently
| didn't realise it was an interview and described his comments as a rant)
| saying: "I doubt that open sourcing Symbian is going to help in the community
| building though. There are two kinds of OSS developers: the guys who do
| things for fun, and the guys who do OSS because they are paid to do so. In
| order for an open source project to really flourish and take over the world,
| you need both...The problem with Symbian is that very, very few people touch
| it for fun." This is a personal view, not the official company line. (via El
| Reg)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072302952.html
Open Source Is Not The Only Answer....
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| "The problem with Symbian is that very, very few people touch it for fun. So
| I believe that while we can open source it, it is going to be very difficult
| to get people participate out of their own free will, unless we are prepared
| to make very serious refactorings to the entire system.
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http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7712_Open_Source_Is_Not_The_Only_An.php
It's like another Sun, trying to 'outLinux' Linux with their own licences and
control. Miro-soft too seeks free labour as such.
Recent:
Nokia looks beyond Symbian to Linux
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| With a 47.9 percent stake in Symbian, the leading mobile platform that it
| co-founded in 1998 and which today powers some 206 million mobile phones,
| Nokia has long championed it at the expense of rival platforms such as Linux.
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| No longer.
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| The mobile-phone maker is increasingly selecting Linux for Internet-enabled
| mobile devices, with its CFO declaring of Linux, "It's going to be terribly
| important."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9949262-7.html
Symbian extends collaboration offer to Google, possibly Android
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| "We already work together and so whatever collaboration, if there is an
| opportunity, we will be happy to collaborate with them," Symbian chief
| executive Nigel Clifford told reporters in Tokyo. "And that could be on the
| application level or that could be on the more fundamental operating system
| level."
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http://www.intomobile.com/2008/07/16/symbian-extends-collaboration-offer-to-google-possibly-android.html
Nokia and the battle for open source's soul
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| The Finnish giant had, until now, kept out of the major alliances being
| formed in the mobile Linux space — the LiMo Foundation and the Google-led
| Open Handset Alliance (OHA) — because it could afford to. Enjoying 40 percent
| of the global handset market, and holding the largest stake in the
| market-leading Symbian platform, Nokia did not have to be quite as reactive
| as other manufacturers when it came to the open-source revolution. It was,
| however, inevitable that it would join the revolution and, after a suitable
| period of observer status, it chose the right time to do so.
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http://www.itvoir.com/portal/boxx/modules/blogs/Blog-Detail.asp?BlogID=1888
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