Uhh... why EPL rather than Apache.

Wow! $410 million for a dead-end operating system?

Apple paid $400 mil for Next and got Steve Jobs to boot.

I guess that's the price of inflation. Or desperation?

I did some symbian coding once. Its that crappiest platform I have ever seen.

dbdweeb, 24 June 2008:
"Sensationalist "Reporting"
They are just increasing their investment from 48% to 52% on the total shares. Sheesh!"

Actually you are yourself referring to erroneous news, Nokia has made an offer to buy all of the stocks and all but Samsung have already signed the deal. Samsung was the smallest owner, owning 8 % so Nokia had already 92 % of stocks confirmed when this announcement was made. Nokia expects Samsung to agree with the deal soon.

You yourself should perhaps check the source if you find mismatching news.

In two years I will be surprised if the production code is available for download by anyone except paid up members of the org. 

If it goes anywhere this will follow the MySQL model.

It is going to take two years to bring these elements together ?
they already exist so should be a very simple matter to distribute ,yes ?

What are the intricacies of that licensing agreement ,released under Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0. ?

At least Google/Android encourages developer support that will make it unique and viable.

Agree that title is to much drama ,does not even come close to supporting the story..

They are just increasing their investment from 48% to 52% on the total shares. Sheesh!

... I wouldn't exactly call going into competition with Google as dealing them a knockout blow. Perhaps the title of this article is a little overdramatic?