Steve Litchfield dreams of a Symbian world where developers and users aren't driven by greed. Read the dream here...
I have a dream
slitchfield wrote:Steve Litchfield dreams of a Symbian world where developers and users aren't driven by greed. Read the dream here...
Great article Steve. I completely agree with your comments. Perhaps I can go one step further and mention FreEPOC? FreEPOC was set up a few years ago by Adrian Pemsel and Ewan Spence because they wanted to create high-quality free software for the Epoc (aka. Symbian) community. Since then, the number of authors and applications has grown quite a bit. Without wanting to sound corny, I think that FreEPOC authors want to contribute to the Symbian community, without feeling the need to get anything in return. My friend Martin Guthrie puts it very well here:
http://www.pscience5.net/Freeware.htm
If any AAS readers have written programs which they are considering releasing as freeware, then please contact us via the forums at:
We can't promise to accept every program that's offered, but we will provide feedback/suggestions for improvements where we can. Programs which are hosted on FreEPOC won't make their authors a single penny (or cent, if you prefer). But you will be giving something back to the Symbian community. That's important, for all the reasons that Steve states in his article.
And to anyone who hasn't yet checked out FreEPOC's software, why not take a look to see if there's anything of interest to you?
Best regards,
Malcolm
www.freepoc.org
This post reminds me of something.....
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/1686/
My gosh have I been there before? and did anyone listen?.... Nice words Steve
/me reaches for the milk crate again.........
EDIT: kinda ages the site a little when we see that nearly 33,000 threads have been posted since my rant on shareware....
malbry wrote:Great article Steve. I completely agree with your comments. Perhaps I can go one step further and mention FreEPOC? ... Without wanting to sound corny, I think that FreEPOC authors want to contribute to the Symbian community, without feeling the need to get anything in return.
It should be fair to say that not only FreEpoc but a lot of other people are contributing, especially those that, by releasing new software (or turning existing shareware to freeware), keep alive the "dead platforms" like ER5.
I would like to point out the importance of OPL which is not only easy, as Steve pointed out, but also an invaluable mean of continuation and transition to the newer Symbian platforms/devices.
Best regards,
Edo
http://www.mypsion.ru/viewplus.php