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Symbian goes open source. Completely

— 4. 02. 2010 by boris

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After almost decade of existing in mobile phone industry Symbian platform went completely open source. Basically, all interested parties as of today can download it and change it’s code. Just in case you didn’t know what open source policy means.


Executive director of the Symbian Foundation, Lee Williams said ‘About a third of the Android code base is open and nothing more, and what is open is a collection of middleware. Everything else is closed or proprietary. On the contrary, Symbian will be made completely open source, providing the best possible experience for developers. To add to the open source announcement, the Symbian Foundation will announce its platform roadmap and upcoming features all the way to 2011, noting that anybody can influence the roadmap as well as help with new features.’

This supposed to be the largest transition from proprietary to open source code in history, as Wired pointed out

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