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The Symbian Foundation today completed the open source release of the source code for the world’s most widely-used smartphone platform. The Symbian platform, which has been developed over more than 10 years and has shipped in more than 330 million devices around the world, is now completely open and the source code is available for free. The transition of this market-leading platform from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history. The move has been completed four months ahead of schedule and provides the basis for unlimited mobile development based on innovation and openness.

Developer Symbian says -

Whoever you are, you can look at the source and see how it works: You can experiment with it, you can try your own ideas and, most significantly, you can be part of the Symbian community.

The Symbian Foundation was not just created to give the Symbian platform away. We’ve achieved one of our goals but this is just the beginning. The role of the foundation is now to steward the platform and the community. Our roadmaps, our governance and our ideas sites have been open for some time.

Any individual or organization could now take, use and modify the code for any purpose, whether that is to be for a mobile device or for something else entirely. This strategic move provides the Symbian ecosystem with greater potential for modernism, faster time-to-market and the opportunity to develop on the platform for free.

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