Nokia buys Symbian, will open Symbian OS

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 24, 2008 10:52 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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Symbian, the company behind the popular proprietary mobile/embedded operating system of the same name, just turned 10, but it won't see its next birthday. Nokia, which had long owned a substantial portion of Symbian, announced today that it would be buying the rest of the company, 52% for about &euro264 million, or approximately $410 million. In addition to purchasing Symbian, Nokia says it will be open-sourcing the Symbian operating system.

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