. A charge may be levied for media and shipping.”
Thus it would seem that Symbian will become open source in name only as how can it be classified as open source whether not freely available . No doubt Nokia will still develop Symbian for their mobile phones, but that is just another nail in the Symbian coffin.
There is of course always a chance that someone else will pick up the reins and host all the essential, but in all honesty does anyone really care ample?
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Nokia’s primary operating system, Symbian, has it had its day in the mobile space? Well it would seem so in the eyes of none other than the Symbian Foundation that hosts documentation, source cipher and fixes for the ailing operating system.
According to an write-up by on Techcrunch by Erick Schonfeld, the Symbian Foundation is to close all open source websites as of the 17th of December, and although technically Symbian will still be open source it would be rather unrealistic for developers to access it.
Apparently the Symbian Foundation developer blog has posted that open source cipher and other info will be “available in some scheme, most likely on a DVD or USB hard drive upon ask to the Symbian Foundation.
