{"id":604925,"date":"2009-11-11T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=79297"},"modified":"2009-11-11T13:20:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T18:20:22","slug":"are-the-symbian-foundation%e2%80%99s-open-source-plans-doa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604925","title":{"rendered":"Are the Symbian Foundation\u2019s Open-source Plans DOA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><p>&#8220;When Nokia announced that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/06\/24\/nokia-buys-symbian\/\">launching the Symbian Foundation<\/a> to great fanfare,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/ostatic.com\/blog\/is-the-symbian-foundation-doa\">writes John Mark Walker on OStatic<\/a>, &#8220;it had within its grasp that rarest of opportunities to move swiftly and become the dominant open-source mobile platform. Alas, just one and a half years later, Nokia and the foundation have seemingly ceded that position to Android. Instead of recognizing the threat from Android and making strategic changes to counter, they instead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handcellphone.com\/archives\/nokia-criticized-googles-android-system-is-not-open\" >criticized Google&#8217;s closed-door development of the OS<\/a> before releasing a line of code themselves.&#8221; Can the Symbian Foundation and Nokia recover quickly and deliver on their important open-source promises and goals?\u00a0 OStatic <a href=\"http:\/\/ostatic.com\/blog\/is-the-symbian-foundation-doa\">tackles that question today, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/div><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=S-s7Xt-i1XA:2zwUHLG7WoU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=S-s7Xt-i1XA:2zwUHLG7WoU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=S-s7Xt-i1XA:2zwUHLG7WoU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=S-s7Xt-i1XA:2zwUHLG7WoU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=S-s7Xt-i1XA:2zwUHLG7WoU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=S-s7Xt-i1XA:2zwUHLG7WoU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=S-s7Xt-i1XA:2zwUHLG7WoU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=S-s7Xt-i1XA:2zwUHLG7WoU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/S-s7Xt-i1XA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When Nokia announced that it was launching the Symbian Foundation to great fanfare,&#8221; writes John Mark Walker on OStatic, &#8220;it had within its grasp that rarest of opportunities to move swiftly and become the dominant open-source mobile platform. Alas, just one and a half years later, Nokia and the foundation have seemingly ceded that position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xmR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}