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Organization Symbian Foundation yesterday completed the process of opening package the most common operating system for smartphones. Platform Symbian, which develops more than 10 years has been established more than 330 million devices worldwide, has become fully open, but its code is available free to all comers. Translation of such a common system from proprietary to open is the first time in history. Translation was carried out ahead. As noted in the press release, originally code to make Symbian open planned in early summer.

The initiative with the opening of the package was launched back in 2008, when the company Nokia, has to redeem the code from vendors and to transfer management platform in the non-profit organization Symbian Foundation. Despite the fact that the discovery has already occurred first phones to the updated system will not until early next year. The reason for Nokia and the Symbian Foundation to open operating system has become not only a desire to attract more application developers, but also the growing popularity of operating system Android. The latter is expected to oppose the possibility of an open community, while the operating system Android is being developed solely by Google.

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