As we’d figured out last night , Symbian’s big reveal for today was the completion of its move to a fully open, royalty-free platform — meaning you no longer need to be a paid-in-full member of the Foundation to see all the code — and they’re ready to talk about it and spread the word far and wide. Though Symbian’s certainly not getting as much share of the mobile discussion these days as some of its smaller competitors, it’s certainly important to keep in mind that these guys have software deployed on literally hundreds of millions of devices, making this perhaps the largest-scale conversion of a closed operating system to open source in history.
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Symbian Foundation talks about its move to open source
