October 28th, 2009 by ahoogThis is an important development. Once Google entered the scene and open sourced Android, it significantly altered the marketplace. For folks in mobile forensics research, this is great news but represents yet another platform that much be analyzed and kept up to date on.
I also believe Nokia has quite a bit more code releasing to do before Symbian should be considered open source. I big question on my mind is what is Blackberry/RIM (and other mobile companies for that matter) going to do in this regards? They lack the developer interest to create the market places users now demand. Will we see RIM open source parts of the Blackberry OS? I’ve said for years now they are in position where the run a significant risk of being marginalized despite their large market share.
Today, though, as EETimes notes, Symbian has released its platform microkernel, and software development kit (SDK), as open source under the Eclipse Public License. The Symbian Foundation claims that it is moving quickly toward an open source model, which is questionable, but the release of the EKA2 kernel is a signal that Symbian still means business about adopting an open source model.
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