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Symbian To Become Open Source |
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Symbian, a popular operating system for mobile phones and PDA's, is moving towards releasing their software under an open source license. Symbian was recently purchased by Nokia, on June 24 2008 the Symbian Foundation was founded to steer this software into the open source world.
The official interim website for the Symbian Foundation features blogs of developers, one of which published a first release plan for the Symbian platform. They'll be working on two milestone releases per year, while maintaining five concurrent Symbian versions. The foundation will ultimately unify Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) software to create an open source software platform for converged mobile devices.
The mobile market is growing rapidly. With Symbian, already a big player in this market, going open source, and a growing population of Android users, it looks like open source and free software will get a solid foot down in this part of the internet as well. My guess is this will happen sooner rather than later.
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