Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Apr 2006 17:45 UTC, submitted by Eugenia
"From time to time over the last few months, I've heard an argument along the following lines, often from people who should know better. 'Operating systems are commodities. There's no special value in them. Operating system A may have a small technical advantage in one area, and operating system B may have a small technical advantage in another area, but there's little to choose between them.' But there are many, many things wrong this argument."
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RE[4]: Propoganda piece, nothing to see here
by Moochman on Wed 12th Apr 2006 23:23
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RE[5]: Propoganda piece, nothing to see here
by Moochman on Thu 13th Apr 2006 00:44
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Okay, actually it was a link right there on the main page of symbiansigned.com, and I missed it.
For independent shareware developers, though, $680 per application signed (plus the $400 annual fee) still seems like a steep price to pay. Even larger companies might balk at the per-application pricing model.
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2006-04-12
Actually, if you look here:
https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page/freeware
and
https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page/freewareFaq
There is a process for getting a UID for non-commercial software for free.
The second link contains the following text:
Open source software is included and encouraged by this route to market - provided it is licensed under at least one widely-accepted open source licence such as GNU General Public License (GPL), and more importantly, no charge is made for the resulting application binary as outlined above.