Nokia workers mourn death of Symbian, thousands walk out

We know how you feel about the apparent death of Symbian , and you had to figure that those most affected by it wouldn’t be feeling too good either. Those people are, of course, the 1,500-odd workers at Nokia ‘s Tampere office who have crafted the OS through the years, over a thousand of whom apparently walked away from their jobs today as a sort of non-violent protest — or maybe just to get a preview of what their Friday afternoons will look like once Elop starts dropping the axe . It should be noted that they used their flexible work schedules to enable this, so this is one orderly bit of social dissonance that shouldn’t result in any accelerations of whatever layoffs are to come. Nokia workers mourn death of Symbian, thousands walk out originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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