At the time I’m writing these words, the website Techmeme, which is a technology news aggregator, has the following display:
The top billing on the site is taken by a posting I made on the Symbian Foundation corporate weblog a little over 24 hours ago, on the subject of the Symbian platform release plan.
It’s the first time that something I’ve written on a blog has generated so much coverage. The powerpoint pictures (originally created by my colleague Ian Hutton) which I spent some time tweaking last night, have ended up being copied to numerous locations on the Internet.
If I had known there would be so much interest, I would have taken more time over the posting!
dw2 
Interesting posts are usually the product of immediate inspiration 🙂
Comment by krasivy — 20 March 2009 @ 5:57 am
Hi David,
My understanding is that Symbian OS has lot of 3 Party Code in it. My questions is:
1. What % of the code in Symbian OS is from 3 Parties?
2. What portion of these 3 Party code has to be licensed from the parties and can you name them?
Thanks and Best Regards,
Dinesh
Comment by Dinesh — 16 April 2009 @ 10:08 pm
Hi Dinesh,
Your questions about TPIP (Third Party IP) in the Symbian Platform will shortly be properly answered on the main Symbian blog.
In the meantime, briefly:
Only a very small proportion of Symbian Platform code has TPIP. However, because the platform is large, this still translates to several dozen items.
Each different TPIP item will have a different answer (or answers) for how customers can obtain solutions.
// dw2-0
Comment by David Wood — 16 April 2009 @ 10:58 pm