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The Making Of Open Source: Checking In On The Symbian ‘Movement’
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Last week, I spent a lot of time with the folks from Symbian, the mobile operating system that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) paid $410 million for, only to turn around and donate the assets to an open-source foundation. What I wanted to know was how the employees—who were once programmed to make profits and [...]
Nokia goes after Google with open-source Symbian
Nokia has announced its Symbian mobile operating system will join the likes of Android and will become an open source operating system. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Smartphone Show in London and is seen as a bid to maintain and possibly grow its developer base. This move comes at the same time Google [...]
Can open source make Apple deal with Adobe?
Having failed to come to an agreement on licensing its Flash technology for the iPhone, Adobe has joined Apple rival Nokia in a $10 million fund aimed at forcing the issue.
Publicly, Adobe is saying its problems with Apple are all technical. But if the Open Screen Project, which is managing the fund, delivers on its [...]