Nick Cubrilovic (Nik Cubrilovic), one of the authors of the blog TechCrunch,
said that on Tuesday, Nokia announced a quick acquisition. In the near future, the company will buy the remaining 52% of Symbian shares that are not yet owned by it. After that, the entire platform will be released under the free Eclipse license.
In addition, Nokia is creating a
Symbian Foundation that will bring together leading mobile vendors and everyone around a promising platform.
Numerous comments received on the news boil down to one main topic: the mobile software market will soon survive an explosion, and there will be a confrontation between open source (Android, Symbian) and proprietary (Microsoft, Apple) software.