The announcement that the Symbian platform is now wholly open source represents a unique moment for the mobile industry as a whole. The most widely distributed smartphone platform, the biggest migration from proprietary to open source software in history; delivered 4 months ahead of schedule (go to here to navigate different aspects of the open sourcing). Symbian also represents the largest addressable market for developers in mobile.
The migration is backed by the foundation’s broad commitment to openness: Any individual or organization can now take, use and modify the code for any purpose, whether that be for a mobile device or for something else entirely. Openness also includes complete transparency in future plans, including the publication of the platform roadmap and planned features up to and including 2011. Anyone can now influence the roadmap, contribute new features and build market opportunity.
Here’s a short introduction to what it means to Symbian and its community:
To avoid video overload, right now, here are a couple of links to additional videos you might want to review. We’ll post them here later too.
For Chris Davidson on being open source go here,
And here for chief architect Daniel Rubio on the Symbian System Model.
[...] Symbian decidono una mossa importante per difendersi dall’aggressività di Android e Iphone (via blog Symbian) The announcement that the Symbian platform is now wholly open source represents a unique moment [...]
[...] Fonte: http://www.symbian.org/news-and-media/2010/02/04/symbian-completes-biggest-open-source-migration-project-ever http://blog.symbian.org/2010/02/04/what-it-means-to-go-open-source/ [...]
We are a small consultant business organization and it’s some time we use the great tools available in Symbian for communication and logistic (e.g. GPS positioning) of our customer, about one houndred companies, and at first we always “suggest” to take Symbian as only standard for all their needs.
I think the open source is a further wonderfull chooise and will be amply rewarded, it greatly simplifies our job, in particoular with all the support Symbian is giving us, and ensures our loyalty!
Thanks, Marco
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[...] February 8, 2010 4:20 PM Continuing the series of videos where Symbian staff explain different aspects of the new Symbian world, here’s Daniel Rubio on the Symbian System Model. Don’t forget to take in Chris Davidson’s post on what it means to be open source and Lee Williams talking about the open source opportunity. [...]