Symbian Foundation axing websites on December 17th, source repositories available ‘upon request’

We’d heard that the Symbian Foundation would undergo some drastic changes as it transitions to a licensing body, and here’s number one — every official Symbian website will be shuttered on the 17th of next month. That goes for every page from symbian.org down to the Symbian Twitter and Facebook feeds, and the source code itself will be shelved. If you want access to any of it, even the databases of user-generated bug reports, you’ll have to ask the Foundation for a hard copy and pay a nominal media and shipping fee after January 31st. We’re trying to reach Symbian right now to figure out the full repercussions of this move, but assuming Nokia’s promise to keep Symbian open-source still rings true, you might want to start stashing away the repositories and setting up mirrors before the Foundation drops off the face of the web — and perhaps the Symbian crowdsource community, too. Symbian Foundation axing websites on December 17th, source repositories available ‘upon request’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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