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We'd heard that the Symbian Foundation would undergo some drastic
changes as it transitions to a licensing body, and here's number one
-- every official Symbian website will be shuttered on the 17th of
next month. That goes for every page from symbian.org down to the
Symbian Twitter and Facebook feeds, and the source code itself will be
shelved. If you want access to any of it, even the databases of user-
generated bug reports, you'll have to ask the Foundation for a hard
copy and pay a nominal media and shipping fee after January 31st.
We're trying to reach Symbian right now to figure out the full
repercussions of this move, but assuming Nokia's promise to keep
Symbian open-source still rings true, you might want to start stashing
away the repositories and setting up mirrors before the Foundation
drops off the face of the web -- and perhaps the Symbian crowdsource
community, too.
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