Symbian Mobile Platform Goes Open Source: A Sign it is in Its Twilight Years?

I’m a big fan of Open Source software. In fact, I spent most of the past decade configuring and managing Linux based servers running Apache httpd, MySQL, and PHP/Python (LAMP) based server software (with a mix of Perl, Ruby, and bunches of other Open Source products). So, I’m always interested to learn about developments in this space.

Symbian, whose mobile S60 platform powers much of the current generation of Nokia smartphones, announced a while back that they were moving the platform from a proprietary one to an Open Source one.

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