Nokia Make Symbian OS Open Source: Free Operating System for Any Manufacturer to Download
As of today, the source code of Symbian 3 mobile OS (the successor of previous Symbian versions, S60, S40 and others) is open and free to use. Although it’s the most popular mobile OS, powering some 330 million phones, Symbian has been in some sort of a limbo lately. Symbian and Nokia (who ownes Symbian) have noticed that Android and the iPhone are gaining more marketshare, so I really think pushing the Symbian software is a great idea. Nokia is hoping that more manyfacturers will pick up the free OS and then use it instead of Android, etc, allowing Nokia to have a much larger platform to push their applications across.
The source code is published under the Eclipse Public License (EPL).
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