Symbian's open source journey

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 9, 2008 6:36 PM CST
ZDNet Asia; By David Meyer
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Symbian, the UK-based maker of the world's most popular smartphone operating system, is going through big changes. As well as being taken over by Nokia, the company is preparing to convert its closed code into open source. At the Symbian Smartphone Show in London in October, Symbian's research chief David Wood told ZDNet Asia's sister site ZDNet UK that the Symbian Foundation will be established in the first half of next year, with the first version of the Foundation software available in March or April 2009. He also discussed the complications of such a process, as well as what the next few years holds for smartphone technology.

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