Symbian Opts for Open Source Ahead of Schedule

Posted 02/05/2010 at 6:35am | by Paul Lilly

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Symbian on Thursday announced that it has completed the "biggest open source migration project ever," having just completed the open source release of its source code.

"Any individual or organization can now take, use and modify the code for any purpose, whether that be for a mobile device or for something else entirely," Symbian stated in a press release. "This strategic move provides the Symbian ecosystem with greater potential for innovation, faster time-to-market and the opportunity to develop on the platform for free. Symbian’s commitment to openness also includes complete transparency in future plans, including the publication of the platform roadmap and planned features up to and including 2011. Anyone can now influence the roadmap and contribute new features."

The move to open source falls well ahead of schedule of the software maker's original goal of releasing the platform by mid-2010.

Symbian remains the most used smartphone platform in existence, even though Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS receive most the attention. Symbian has shipped on some 330 million devices, the company claims.

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