Posted by: Anonymous
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on June 25, 2008 05:40 PM
Simple.
Linux is GPL, and no one entity owns the whole "stack".
Symbian will be opensourced, but no doubt dual licensed. All the power of a public license, AND all the power of a closed license. The public portion encourages adoption, the closed license give the authoring company exclusive rights to roll the code into binaries.
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Re: Nokia buys Symbian, will open Symbian OS
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 65.116.253.10] on June 25, 2008 05:40 PMLinux is GPL, and no one entity owns the whole "stack".
Symbian will be opensourced, but no doubt dual licensed. All the power of a public license, AND all the power of a closed license. The public portion encourages adoption, the closed license give the authoring company exclusive rights to roll the code into binaries.
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