[General] Fwd: Symbian Goes Open Source - Courtesy of Nokia

[bashar abdullah]

Another hit for Android then, after it was delayed

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net>
wrote:

> amazing, opensource is leading the planet!
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> From: Mohammed Al-Essa <alessm at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM
> Subject: [q8lug] Symbian Goes Open Source - Courtesy of Nokia
> To: Kuwait Linux User Group <q8lug at googlegroups.com>
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> Nokia has today [June 24, 2008] announced that they will be acquiring
> the remaining 52% of Symbian they don't own and will be releasing the
> complete Symbian platform under the Eclipse open source license. Nokia
> have also announced the creation of the Symbian Foundation, which is
> an alliance of mobile vendors and application providers that any
> company can join. The foundation will oversee the process of releasing
> Symbian under a new open source license, and then retain the long-term
> control and trademarks of the operating system.
>
>
> http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/06/24/symbian-goes-open-source-courtesy-of-nokia/
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>
> That being said, 2009 should be a very interesting year for open
> source in the mobile phone industry, we will be seeing Google and
> Nokia battle it out though Android and Symbian platforms respectively.
> We will also be seeing how well Apple and RIM's technologies compare,
> this will be far different than the Linux vs. Windows battle. I'd be
> interested to hear your thoughts on this.
>
> Other news:
>
> Los Altos, Calif., June 17, 2008  - IronKey Inc., maker of the world's
> most secure flash drive, announced today that its devices now support
> Linux, enabling users to initiate and utilize IronKey flash drives on
> all Linux-based operating systems.
>
> https://www.ironkey.com/
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