Nokia: Symbian is no longer open source

By on Apr 8, 2011 at 12:31 PM
mobile April 8, 2011

Nokia recently said that its Symbian operating system is no longer open source. The Finnish firm is continuing to provide source code to Japanese OEMs and its small developer community in an alternative “open and direct” model. “Consistent with this, the Nokia Symbian License is an alternative license which provides an access to Nokia’s additional Symbian development for parties which collaborate with Nokia on the Symbian platform,” Nokia stated. The Symbian Foundation opened up the Symbian source code in February 2010, and in November of last year Nokia and the Symbian Foundation announced that Nokia would take full control of the OS in March 2011.

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  • Anonymous

    This is another step toward a greater catastrophe.

  • Tyler Brock

    Hah, nobody cares…

  • Anonymous

    symbiwho?

  • http://twitter.com/ltamake Link Tamake

    And nothing of real value was gained or lost.

    • Anonymous

      How did you make that pixelated avatar?

  • Anonymous

    Yes!

  • http://twitter.com/Aleis Jayrock

    they are making all the wrong moves.

  • Anonymous

    And in a forest in a faraway land, a tree fell.

  • M/N

    One step closer to the graveyard!

  • Anonymous

    “disConnecting People” the Microsoft way.

  • Jayanthi Rangarajan

    What a loss. Because Symbian was such a dominant, awesome, beloved, mobile phone operating system.

    Or not.

    Symbian is a turd. It’s always been an also-ran wannabe. It’s not a has-been, it’s a “never was”.

    Other than the Symbian team at Nokia, no one gives a fart about it. It sucks.

  • Anonymous

    Nokia’s most tried and true customers (surprising how many Symbian fans there are out there) have been given the final blow.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bairaktaris Manos Bairaktaris

    An important decision to protect an OS that nobody cares about. They should send their announcements to comedy central.

  • Anonymous

    Unless Nokia manage to pull a rabbit out of their ass, Symbian is as good as dead. Pity because I liked using Symbian 2~3 phones and they got left behind by other mobile OS’s. Heck, even BB OS and the new WP7 managed to at least be competitive in this touch-centric world.

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