Symbian Basis

In 2009, we established the Symbian Basis to make the Symbian platform accessible open source and royalty-free. In November 2010 we announced that the foundation would ramp down its operational activities as a result of adjustments in world economic and market conditions.

We have now accomplished the transition from a non-revenue organisation accountable for governing the open growth and curation of the Symbian platform, to a licensing entity with no permanent staff. Transferring forward, the foundation is accountable only for specific licensing and authorized frameworks put in place through the open sourcing of the platform. The Symbian platform will proceed to evolve beneath Nokia, who have started to make the long run growth of the platform out there via an alternative direct and open model.

You will discover more information on Nokia’s plans for Symbian at http://symbian.nokia.com. Discussion board Nokia is the most effective place to entry developer support for Symbian, including instruments, documentation, technical support, and dialogue boards.

We want to extend our deepest because of everybody who contributed to the most important milestones achieved at the Symbian Foundation. We can all be happy with these accomplishments - some not seen earlier than within the historical past of computing, such because the completion of the largest transition to open supply of any business codebase in software program history. We would also like to increase heat due to the entire member neighborhood for their continued dedication to the Symbian platform.

We're confident that these are absolutely the proper changes within the context of at this time’s market and economy, and we look forward to watching a brand new era of success for the Symbian platform unfold.