Symbian Completes Transition To Open Source

Grond writes "Symbian, maker of the the world's most popular mobile operating system, has completed the transition to a completely open platform months ahead of schedule. While the kernel was opened up last year, the entire platform is now open source, primarily under the Eclipse Public License. A FAQ is available with more information about the platform opening." Adds an anonymous reader, linking to PC Magazine's story on the transition: "By putting Symbian fully in the public domain, the Symbian Foundation is pitting it against Google's Android. Symbian is well known across most of the world, but it's mostly a foreign curiosity in the US, AT&T is the only carrier that currently has a symbian phone in its lineup, the Nokia E71x."

Comments

Re:Seems like overkill

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, that company needs to change its name. I can't read that name without thinking of that weird saddle/vibrator thing.

I always want to read that as "Sybian"

[Nimey]

I personally blame the Internet and rule 34.

Re:Pet peeve: "public domain"

[Antidamage]

In the coming war between Open Source and Public Domain, no man will be free as in beer.