The deal between Nokia and Symbian finally closed and now Symbian Foundation is officially in charge of Symbian development. Currently there are ten participants in the Symbian Foundation with memberships open to anyone with $1,500.
Just the other day at Nokia World 2008, Matti Vänskä told everyone that Symbian Foundation plans to release Symbian as a fully open source operating system in just two years. This just may give Nokia what it takes to stay a step ahead of Google’s Android if it keep creeping along as it has thus far. The Foundation is working on a tight schedule to make all of the essential software platform components for building a mobile device open source.
As with all open source platforms today, it will take a significant amount of time to catch on and get up to speed. Phones such as the OpenMoko FreeRunner have yet to really catch the public’s eye like the T-Mobile G1 has managed to do. Now Symbian has a lot of work to do to say ahead of the Open Handset Alliance and the substantial growth there are seeing. These changes just may affect the popularity of the iPhone and Windows mobile handsets.
[Via SymbianFoundation]
andriod been scaring bit@he$ fir iphone drops there dev agreement and now Symbian trying to be open source how laughable shows google is doing well so far