Symbian to be another open mobile platform
Symbian to be another open mobile platform
Posted Jun 25, 2008 22:53 UTC (Wed) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)Parent article: Symbian to be another open mobile platform
Would it be actually a "problem" if freeing Symbian slows down Linux adoption on mobile phones ? I mean, by then it would actually mean that one free OS (Symbian) would be preferred over another free OS (Linux). I.e. both are free, and I think my goal is to have more free software available, not specifically having more marketshare for one specific free software (except the ones I'm working on myself). Alex
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Also you could see it as the example that the java liberation is basically done now (Indeed through the help of the free software community at large): Java is finally Free and Open
Posted Jun 27, 2008 2:53 UTC (Fri)
by robilad (guest, #27163)
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Symbian to be another open mobile platform
Well, Linux is free now while Symbian will be freed 'over the next 2 years' - which might
happen, or it might not.
Symbian to be another open mobile platform
True. But I don't know of a single gradual open source rollout by a larger company that didn't
happen according to plan (OpenOffice, Java, Netscape), so I'm willing to give Nokia the
benefit of doubt.
Symbian to be another open mobile platform
Well, Java is the example I was thinking about. Look how much time it's taking (still isn't
done!), far more than expected.
Symbian to be another open mobile platform
Agreed. My general rule of the thumb is "it's ready when it's in Debian main, fully
functional". In this case of course that'd mean Debian GNU/Symbian, at least on ARM port of it
:)
Slow Java open-sourcing
To be fair to Sun it's not like the control all the code from day zero. Proprietary code bases
tend to have all sorts of stuff in it and that takes a while to sort out.
Slow Java open-sourcing
Which is exactly why we should be skeptical of promises to open the
code -- the companies don't necessarily have the power to make the promise
reality.
Symbian to be another open mobile platform
I was under the impression that Sun said from the get go that some pieces might have to be
reimplemented since they didn't own the rights to them and weren't sure they could obtain
them.
Do you have a reference to Sun claiming this would happen faster than it already has? In my
world, the creation of IcedTea is evidence of how well the community can help out and pick up
the slack during a major code roll out like this.
In my world, the creation of IcedTea is evidence of how well the community can help out and pick up the slack during a major code roll out like this.
Java, Sun, IcedTea
Symbian to be another open mobile platform
It took Sun about a year to publish all of the JDK code they could under the GPL (~96 %), and
another year together with the OpenJDK community to finish off the remaining bits needed to
certify an implementation as Java6 compatibile.
The only comparison that remotely makes sense that I know of is the tri-licensing of the
Mozilla code base, which took 5 years until completion, afaik.
Two years from 0 to 100% is quite the opposite of slow for a radical licensing change on
codebase as mature and large as Java.