Sunday, 22 September 2013

Sign a petition to: Release Symbian Source Code to open source

Nokia Corporation & Microsoft Corporation: Release Symbian Source Code & Make It Open Source & Release latest update builds & Save the environment


Since Nokia cancelled all firmware updates for their Symbian phones &
Microsoft probably have no intention to keep Symbian OS, because they are concentrating on Windows mobile

I HEREBY DECLARE TO WISH FOR THE RELEASE OF
SYMBIAN OS SOURCE CODES AND LATEST BUILDS TO OPEN SOURCE
FOR DEVELOPMENT & FUNCTIONALITY REASONS FOR MILLIONS OF
SYMBIAN & S40 SERIES USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD

Symbian Os & Nokia's S40 series still cover 20% of mobile os shares worldwide according to "Statcounter - Global Stats"
According to other Global statistic corporations, like Gartner & Canalys the world share of mobile os, depending on the used browser to log on to the web shows that Symbian still has over 20 million users.
A lot of these people have trusted Nokia as their phone provider for over 20 years
these users paid lots of money to receive products that were long known as the best cell phones in the world, and they supported the Nokia Corporation and its Employees for a long, long time.

The biggest competitor in mobile Os already has open source projects and allows development and distribution all over the world
It would be a shame if the users of Symbian & S40 Series would be forced to change their phones, just because of functionality reasons, that some developers might be able to re-program and provide for others

AND, it would be an environmental catastrophe, if over 20 million phones were thrown away in the next 2 – 3 years
SO PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION & KEEP SYMBIAN ALIVE BEFORE IT GETS FORGOTTEN

go here to sign the petition:
Link to petition to Open source Symbian Os

p.s. PLEASE spread the word to everyone you know and every tech and phone forum you know

5 comments:

  1. Hi Eric,
    It's very good idea to bring petition to MS and Nokia to provide source code to Symbian OS. But url is not working

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  2. broken kink !!!!


    grusse
    mikeisdutch

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  3. I searched change.org and found it...and also shortened the URL. This could do until Eric can fix the link - http://goo.gl/l5QZsE

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  4. While this would be really, really cool (and I signed it, therefore), I doubt it is going to happen.
    For the simple reason that improving Symbian might keep people from buying Windows Phone. So while they do not really have any reason to not do this (apart the effort that would go into preparing it), there is quite the incentive to really let Symbian die in favor of potential WP customers. Apart from that, I believe Accenture ownes Symbian now, and was paid by Nokia to provide the final support. I guess opening up the source would be quite problematic from a legal point of view (probably limiting stuff in the purchase contracts, etc. etc.).
    Sorry for this negative note...

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