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Is It Worth Sacrificing $300 Million to Go Open Source?

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eWEEK; By Darryl K. Taft 		Mail this story
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What does it take for an established “closed” vendor to shift midcourse and adopt an open-source model? Well in the case of Nokia and its pending acquisition of smart phone operating system maker Symbian, the cost may be $300 million a year. That’s how much Symbian earned in royalties last year from sales of its Symbian OS to handset manufacturers, said Nigel Clifford, CEO of Symbian, who spoke at the Symbian Smartphone Show here on Oct. 21.

[It seems the author purposely misses the point that the long term effect of opening up the code base will more than make up for the loss in OS licensing revenue. - Scott]

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