On 04/03/2011 05:28, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:54 AM, Michael Watterson wrote:
>
>> >  You somehow got all the source (but no other documentation and no mak=
e
>> >  files) and spend a month trying to analyse  how to build it.
> I was thinking recently that there were certain instances of
> proprietary commercial software where releasing the source to open
> source could probably set back open source for YEARS trying to figure
> out how to make them actually build in any useful form...
>
> BillW
>
When Symbian itself was originally released as OS, you could not build=20
it. Unless you already had access to building it and the tools previously.
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