Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian

zyzko writes "Nokia has placed an offer on Symbian stock — it currently owns a 48% share and intends to buy the other shareholders out, 91% of the stockholders have already agreed. The press has already labeled this as an countermeasure to fight Android. Nokia has also created Symbian foundation — it might mean more open Symbian." Symbian is "currently the world's dominant smartphone operating system (206 million phones shipped, 18.5 million in Q1 2008)," writes reader thaig, who points out coverage in the Economic Times. If this deal goes through as expected, the Foundation says that selected components of the Symbian operating system would be made available as open source at launch under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0 , with the rest of the platform following over the next two years.

Comments

This merger will bring a new meaning. . .

[smooth wombat]

to the phrase, "I'll just put my phone on vibrate."

Re:Leaves

[Anonymous Coward]

Me too. Hence my commitment to Windows!

Nokia had better talk to Blackwater

[smittyoneeach]

I hear the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army is even now plotting their counter-attack.

Re:My moneys

[Bandman]

There's something wrong with my brain.

Every time I read "Symbian" I see "simian" mentally...

which of course lead to my reading your post as "My monkey's on google"

I need to go back to bed.

I hate Sybian

[pw1972]

My wife loves her Sybian, and prefers it to me sometimes.