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Symbian completes biggest open source migration project
February 4th 2010
Posted by: Jonathan Morris
The Symbian Foundation has now fully completed its open source migration project, meaning the platform that has been around for over ten years and is in over 330 million devices is now completely open.
What this means is that any developer can take, use and modify the code for any purpose. This follows the same approach taken by Google and the Open Handset Alliance that created the Android OS.
The move should make it easier for anyone (business or individual) to advance the Symbian ecosystem and bring new innovation for mobile devices or entirely new products (a hint to things like tablets perhaps?).
Symbian will also commit to complete openness, giving complete transparency on its future plans, including the platform roadmap and planned features up to and including 2011.
Developers can now download all 108 packages containing the source code of the Symbian platform from the developer web site.
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