Submitted by vishy on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 21:22.
http://www.symbianfoundation.org/
23/06/2008 - Today Nokia, TI, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, ST Microelectronics, Vodafone and other industry leaders joined hands to form a Symbian foundation. Objective of this foundation is to deliver a open source, royalty free mobile operating system, and foster innovation in handset areas. This idea is already supported by founders and supports of Symbian.
To form the foundation, Nokia will fully acquire the Symbian and contribute Symbian and S60 to the foundation. Sony Erisson will contribute its UIQ and DOCOMO will deliver MOAP(S) assets. From these contributions, the Foundation will provide a unified platform with common UI framework. Full source code will be available to all foundation members royalty-free. The source code will be distributed through Eclipse Public License. Foundation members can further contribute to this Open source code by their own innovations.
The Foundation’s platform will build on the leading open mobile software platform, with more than 200 million phones, across 235 models, already shipped by multiple vendors and tens of thousands of third-party applications already available for Symbian OS-based devices.
