Openness, thy name is Symbian.
The platform developer said this week it’s going open-source.
“I strongly believe an open ecosystem wins over an ecosystem run by a captain, or I should say a dictatorship," Nokia's executive vice president for Devices, Kai Oistamo, told a conference of Symbian partners and developers in London, Reuters reported.
The Symbian Foundation, which has a new director, will oversee the particulars.
There’s quite a bit of debate around the Web regarding how this will all work and what will happen to Symbian employees. The news comes as Nokia prepares to take ownership of Symbian.
