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Nokia buys open-source provider to make it free (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Nokia Corp. is buying open-source mobile platform Symbian Ltd. for $412 million and making its technology available to manufacturers through what it calls the "Symbian Foundation." Companies will pay $1,500 to join the foundation, whose members will work to build a leading open-source mobile platform. Nokia's foundation partners are AT&T...

Posted on June 24, 2008 4:09 PM

Mozilla man (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Building software through an open-source community might result in a better product, but from a licensing standpoint it can be a nightmare. A single open-source application might contain millions of lines of code written by countless programmers worldwide. To help protect users of the application from copyright-infringement accusations, contributing...

Posted on April 15, 2006 6:01 PM

How open? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

In the software industry, the open-source movement and customer demands for interoperability are changing everything.

Posted on October 15, 2005 6:05 PM