The Proliferation of Linux

Nokia announced to day that it is buying the remaining share of Symbian Limited that it doesn’t yet control for about 264 million euros.  Nokia plans to turn Symbian over to to a newly created Symbian Foundation.  Other members of the foundation include Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo.

The foundation is commited to moving Symbian to the open source realm within two years and plans to use the Eclipse Public License.

Press Releases:

• Nokia to Acquire Symbian Limited
• Symbian Foundation to be established

[via Engadget]

Tags: nokia, Open Source, symbian

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