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Symbian OS goes free and open-source, in the biggest switch in software history
The Symbian Foundation is boasting that this is the biggest switch from closed to open in the history of software. With their software powering 330 million Nokia devices, that sounds like a reasonable claim.
It's no secret that Android played a big role in this move. The competition from Google's hot new mobile OS (that's been marketed as an open alternative) meant that Symbian had to make a change. Now all of Symbian's code is open, and they can take shots at Android for its partially-closed code. Symbian's roadmap of planned features through 2011 will soon be published for anyone to comment on and contribute to. Hopefully, this move will keep the aging OS around past that point.
[via Wired]
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Subscribe to commentsmichas_piFeb 4th 2010 10:49AM
S60 is the best mobile phone operating system.
palFeb 4th 2010 11:28AM
Java going open source seemed bigger to me... is there an official way to measure how big the software is?
gregFeb 4th 2010 11:54AM
Nokia should just submit and give more attention to developing in co-op with google android, it would be so much more equipped to take on iphones and such then. I used to be a Nokia boy, but im changing to android in about a month once the HTC branded equivalent of the Nexus one comes out with the sense UI, just seems more reasonable and practical
TaomynFeb 5th 2010 4:17AM
"aging OS" ??? and how old exactly is the original Linux base for Android? At least Symbian was designed specifically for mobile devices - some may argue is actually a more efficient core.
What most people are perceiving as old is really the GUI sitting atop the OS and for that I totally agree and is in need of "updating". That's what I hope will finally start happening now.