The Symbian OS was a team effort between Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Panasonic, Samsung and Siemens. Reports said, that in the eve of the 10th year anniversary from the creation of Symbian, Nokia has bought the 8.4% Siemens stake for 70 million Euros ($108.6 million) and will now have over 56% of controlling interest in the group, but the press release says that Nokia takes it all. This could have created quite some uneasiness to the other players, but Nokia will play nice.
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Member since:2005-06-28
I read the release, it's you that you didn't read what I wrote. I said that initial reports said that Nokia only bought Siemens' stake, but then the Nokia PR clears this up by saying that they pretty much got everything. I simply quoted the original article that was released before the PR itself, and was what the buzz was *originally* out there before the PR came out to clear everything up.
Edited 2008-06-24 09:02 UTC
Member since:2005-07-20
The Symbian Foundation platform will be available to members under a royalty-free license from this non-profit foundation. The Symbian Foundation will provide, manage and unify the platform for its members. Also, it will commit to moving the platform to open source during the next two years, with the intent to use the Eclipse Public License. This will make the platform code available to all for free, bringing additional innovation to the platform and engaging even a broader community in future developments.
That means that Symbian will be open source in a timeframe of a couple of year, doesn't it?
from http://www.symbianfoundation.org/
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2006-01-05
Did you even bother to read the press release before posting this article? I mean the first paragraph says they are buying the 52% they don't own and the next one says they have irrevocable undertakings for 91% of the company with Samsung the only one not on board yet... Stop channeling /. please and read the press releases.