“There’s a difference between releasing software under a FOSS
license and running a successful FOSS project. The latter involves
a sufficiently large community of developers, ways how they can
contribute, …“Especially with special purpose code such as an operating
system (kernel) for mobile devices, very few people will show
interest as long as there is no actual hardware where they can run
the software, without or with custom modifications. Sure, there
will be academic interest and people who will look at the source
code to find ways to exploit potentially existing security
weaknesses, but no community of people who work on it since they
will practically use it on their own device.”
Symbian Kernel Open Source Release and Tanenbaum
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