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Offline ccsvchost

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Making Symbian open source
« on: September 25, 2013, 02:13:13 pm »
What does everyone think about making Symbian open source? The petition on this site made me interested: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/nokia-corporation-microsoft-corporation-release-symbian-source-code-make-it-open-source-release-latest-update-builds-save-the-environment

Can someone give pros and cons for this?

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Re: Making Symbian open source
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2013, 01:37:27 am »
If the source code is released, developers will be able to build upon Symbian in the same way other open-source OS (such as Linux [eg - Android]) are built.
The pros to this are rather self evident; if the source code is locked up, the SymbianOS dies. If it is released, the public can improve and enhance it.
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Re: Making Symbian open source
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2013, 01:17:39 pm »
Then I guess we should all sign this petition. Hopefully they reach the target number of signatures. A legend shouldn't die so easily :)

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Re: Making Symbian open source
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2013, 01:58:30 am »
Legends never die, but the rest of us need all the help we can get.
Symbian should be released into the wild and given a fighting chance  :)

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Re: Making Symbian open source
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2013, 10:31:23 pm »
The could be the only hope for symbian or we can hope other phone manufacture pick up symbian at least as secondary OS where it is left.

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Re: Making Symbian open source
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2013, 07:24:23 pm »
Hopefully all these efforts to make symbian an open OS gets fulfilled atlast...:)

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Re: Making Symbian open source
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2013, 04:27:26 am »
Signed... He got My Support...  ;)

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Re: Making Symbian open source
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2013, 02:41:04 pm »
Me too  ;) symbian must live