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Royalties for free software?

Royalties for free software?

Posted Jun 25, 2008 21:08 UTC (Wed) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613)
In reply to: Royalties for free software? by roelofs
Parent article: Symbian to be another open mobile platform

My, purely speculative, thought is that it would give you the right to 
use "Symbian", rather than your own operating system built from Symbian 
sources.

That is, you pay for the brand name and associated compability guarantee. 
Similar to how (most) Java source code now is open source, but you still 
need a license to offer a "Java" solution.


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