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Symbian Foundation web sites shutting down
The short-lived Symbian open-source project is truly at an end, and its
web sites will be shutting down soon. "As a result, we expect
our websites will be shutting down on 17th December. We are working hard to
make sure that most of the content accessible through web services (such as
the source code, kits, wiki, bug database, reference documentation &
Symbian Ideas) is available in some form, most likely on a DVD or USB hard
drive upon request to the Symbian Foundation."
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Symbian Foundation web sites shutting down Posted Nov 28, 2010 12:08 UTC (Sun) by azilian (subscriber, #47340) [Link]
One of the greatest things about open source is the ability to fork projects or to support them so they don't disappear. So I have sent an e-mail to the Foundation in which I offered them free hosting for the site, forums, downloads and documentation of the site.
This way, if they agree, I believe we can keep the community of this project alive.
Symbian Foundation web sites shutting down Posted Nov 28, 2010 12:39 UTC (Sun) by sumC (subscriber, #1262) [Link]
I would be surprised if Nokia doesn't open a repository now that it has taken development in-house. At least so it still can claim that its open software.
It is an open source... Posted Nov 30, 2010 1:38 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] It does not matter where it's hosted: as long as source is awailable it's open-source. Android is also not perfect WRT to community involvement, yet nobody claims it's not open-source. But the fate of Symbian is sad indeed: it's still bigger then Android but the difference is not owerwhelming like it was year before. And since it's N&N shop now (Nokia and NTT Docomo) it's fate is totally unclear. The only plausible way for it to survive is if HTC and Samsung will fragment the market and try to push their own favorites (Windows Phone 7 for HTC and Bada for Samsung) and Nokia will abandon MeeGo. Then Symbian very well may win because Nokia is sells more smartphones then HTC and Samsung... combined. But this is such a long shot that to bet on it you need to be true Symbian fan indeed.
It is an open source... Posted Nov 30, 2010 17:49 UTC (Tue) by sumC (subscriber, #1262) [Link]
Symbian will occupy Nokias mid-range for the foreseeable future(2 years). It will be pushed lower and lower while MeeGo takes over these segments. Eventually it will replace S40 and after that be pushed out completely. Of course these are my predictions.
Symbian Foundation web sites shutting down Posted Dec 1, 2010 12:25 UTC (Wed) by slef (subscriber, #14720) [Link]
I contacted Symbian Foundation a while ago, asking for an accessible way to sign my apps - their signing service page for open source apps (so you could actually install them on your handset after compiling them) had an eyetest on it. They basically messed around and wouldn't give a way. So I'm not sorry to see them go. Anyone know what the future of app signing will be?
I've described Symbian as the least upgradeable FOSS mobile platform. Anyone else feel they seem to be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
mobile market OS parts Posted Dec 2, 2010 22:19 UTC (Thu) by Alterego (subscriber, #55989) [Link]
It seems symbian loss will cause more trouble in southern countries :
Summary of market shares worldwide
from http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-200911-20...
mobile market OS parts Posted Dec 4, 2010 18:53 UTC (Sat) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]
Those statistics are skewed for a web perspective (they count web accesses from mobile phones).
Although the current trend is to have web enabled smartphones, we are still a long way for them to be common enough for those numbers to make sense as a global market indicator.
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