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Nokia has announced the buyback of the British corporation Symbian, to the origin of the operating system for smartphones. The Symbian Foundation was created, with the support of operators as AT&T, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone, or of creators of movable fleas as Texas Instruments and STMicro electronics.  Today close to 200 actors of the telecommunications rejoined foundation.

And close to 12 years after the creation of Symbian, this is a first version open-source and free of the system that will be published in the day, with four months in advance on the initially foreseen planning.  Result: all the builders desiring to use Symbian on a movable telephone will be able to profit from it without paying an any license.  According to The Williams, the executive director of based foundation to London, it is a conversion matter the most important one of a software owner towards a solution open-source.

The system Symbian is integrated today on more than 330 million movable telephones in the world.  The opening of his code source should allow multiplying the final ones equipped of this movable BONE, smartphones to the tablets, as the proposes notably Google with his system Android.  But according to The Williams, the movable system of Google is not really “open”.

“Close to a third of the code source of Android is opened.  Not more.  And which is opened is a collection of middleware.  The whole remainder is closed or owner”, it precise.  Of more, the system Symbian gives a bigger visibility of the advances that will be proposed in the next months.  “We are the only ones to engage ourselves on a development up to 2011.  And everyone can influence this roadmap and contribute to new functionalities”, it adds at last.

This is the system Symbian^3 that should be proposed in version open-source.  The first final one exploiting it must go out as early as the summer 2010.  The Williams specified us in end of last year that “Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 will propose 664 new functionalities.  The system Symbian strictly speaking already possesses 40 to 50 millions of lines of code”.  All are therefore henceforth available under license open-source.