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Open Software: The Building blocks for a Converged Mobile Experience
Open software is the basic building block for a converged mobile experience. By the end of 2010 we expect four billion people to have joined the global mobile conversation. For many of these people, their mobile device will not just be a phone or a music player, but will host their first experience of the Internet. With this in mind, industry leaders came together to establish the Symbian Foundation. Their aim? To bring to life a shared vision of the most proven, open and complete mobile software platform - and to make it available for free.
Background: How we got here
The Symbian Foundation began operating during the first half of 2009 and continues to grow, gaining widespread industry support. Want to join in the fun? Foundation membership is open to any organization and our code is available to all for free.
The Symbian Foundation provides, manages and unifies the platform for download and development. On 4th February 2010, four months ahead of schedule, we achieved our initial goal of open sourcing the Symbian platform source code. With the code now published under the Eclipse Public License the entire platform is available to all for free, bringing additional innovation and more frequent and widely-sourced code and feature contributions; and engaging an even broader community in future development.