Software platform for converging devices dietmar tallroth

Symbian

Platform for Converged DevicesAnd The Age of Participation

Dietmar TallrothGeneral CounselSymbian Foundation

Symbian Foundation in a Nutshell

The Symbian Foundation is a non-profit organizationthat provides, manages and unifies the Symbian Platform

The Symbian Platform is the most used smart phone OS,which has been shipped in est. more than 300 Mio devices world wide

Our goal is to be a truly opensoftware platform

Some Facts About Symbian Foundation

q Founded by Nokia, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, AT&T, NTT DoComo, Vodafone, Texas Instruments, ST-Ericsson at the beginning of 2009.q Fujitsu and Qualcomm Innovation Center joined the Board

of Directors in autumn 2009q Over 200 member companies

q Governance q By Board consisting of Directors named by founding

companiesq By four councils (Architecture, Release, Roadmap, UI)

partly with nominated, partly with elected membersq Initial platform contribution was made by Nokia, Sony-

Ericsson and DoCoMo and included Symbian OS, Nokia S60 software and MOAP(S) technologyq “Cleaned up” from dependencies on 3rd party IPq Released under open source license (EPL) in February 2010

(4 months ahead of schedule) Copyright © 2010 Symbian Foundation.

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Evolution of the Symbian Platform

Copyright © 2010 Symbian Foundation.

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S^2 The first platform release hosted

by the Symbian Foundation

S^3 Simpler, faster UI

Improved music & video experiences

A whole new touch UIQt adopted for native app development

S^4

KitsQ2 2010

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What We Are About


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Our Aspiration

q Why a “truly open platform”

q For the pace of innovation

q To go “beyond smart phones”

q To be a true technical enablerfor the Age of Participation


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From Converging IndustriesToDawn of the Age of Participation

What does “Age of Participation” mean?

It Is Happening Nowq Open Source q Twitter

q Participate in the life of othersq New form of political tool (e.g. protest in Iran, Gaza ships)

q YouTubeq Search for “Sarah Palin parody” gives 2.500 hits in YouTube

q Remix Culture (Laurence Lessig)q Empowering the Poor

q Brisbane Times: mobile phones help decide Indian elections, enabling a member of the “untouchable caste” to become Chief Minister

q Mobile phone use does not require literacyq Are used to circumvent establish power structures

q “Valkaama” the first open source movieq Mobile uses in Africa

q “Mobile Phone reporters”q Money transfer by phoneq Phones as music production and distribution tools

q Also the “Dark Side” has detected the possibilitiesq Globally organized crime & terrorismCopyright © 2010

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Elements

q Information – Education – Participationq Creation for the Commonsq Disappearing geographical boundariesq Disappearing social boundariesq The global company and the global consumerq Producers and consumers turn into participants (e.g. Co-

creation in product development)


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Are we prepared ?

q Case study: intellectual property rights

q Article 1, Section 8 U.S. Constitution, says that “Congress shall have the Power:-To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by

securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;”

q Two romantic notionsq About individuals (“Authors and Inventors”)q About creation as an act of

“Incentive and Response”


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IPR Laws: “The First Hack”

q Instead of the individual, the Rights Aggregator has become the central role in IPRq As investor and

publisher (“content rights aggregator”)q As investor and

manufacturer (“innovation rights aggregator”)q As investor and

licensor (e.g. the “patent troll”)IPR aggregation is an investment-driven

industry activity like others.

q And we see creative activity on a massive scale that is not triggered by legal incentive


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IPR Laws: “The Second Hack”

q Open Source licensing is an example of of IPR law “hack”, tooq As an attempt to create rules for community driven creation,

theyq Introduce a fairness principleq Try to protect the “community” and the “common asset”q Tend to be hostile towards assertion of exclusive rights

(like patents)

q Most notably, open source offers an alternative approach to “recovery of R&D investment” (vs the patent system)


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Thesis 1: Hacks Are Not Enough

q Hacks tend to be clumsyq The notion of rights aggregation starts to look outdatedq Joint ownership is more of a problem than a solutionq Example:

q Can the Linux Kernel ever change license ?q Can Symbian ever change license ?

q We (especially: we the lawyers in the ICT industries) are challenged withq Can we come up with ideas for genuine legal recognition

and protection of community assets?q Can we come up with new models for R&D investment

recovery? (That are better suited to joint R&D/community creation)


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Thesis 2: The Right Time is Now

q One doesn’t have to like what is comingq There are still many counter forces

q But there is a generation coming for which participation is as natural as breathing

q One might have mistaken the first car as “just another form of steam engine”…q … and missed the revolutionary effect

of individual trafficq The consequences are far reaching

q touching all areas of law (not only IPR), economics and politics

q The task will be huge – and thus it is time to start the discussion


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Welcome To The Age of Participation

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