The Famous Symbian OS Goes Open Source

Symbian is the famous operating system that power up most Nokia mobile handsets. This OS was originally developed by Symbian Ltd. but then Nokia claimed it, next to an independent non-profit organization called Symbian Foundation, and implemented it on its devices.

Probably quite a bunch of people, including me, predicted that this would eventually happen and it did, Symbian OS is, technically, now open source after the big boys decided that, after 10 years, it's time to make most of the code no longer proprietary and instead available for free and download i.e open source. What would that result in? Community and developers all over the globe can now participate in further development and better-implementation of the OS on the handsets.

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Is Nokia going to lose? I doubt it. If you asked me why? If you read my blog post about Android OS you could imagine my justification as well. The reason of the huge success of Android's is mainly because it's open source. Period. Nokia finally realized that it's actually starting to fall behind, well not in Jordan, after popular makers decided to go with Android and the huge success they had with it.

Kudos to whomever participated in such initiative and decision. I might even consider buying a Nokia handset after that now that I know that the OS is open source.

Sources: [1], [2]