Twelve more companies join in the open mobile OS fun.
ARM, CieNET, Flander, FUJISOFT, Huawei, Inmote, InnoPath Software, Red Bend, Scalado, Symsource, TRANGO Virtual Processors and Visa have joined the Symbian Foundation - the gatekeeper of the eponymous OS.The newcomers join founding Foundation members AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas Instruments and Vodafone.
The Symbian Foundation is home to the Symbian OS and S60 from Nokia, UIQ technology from Motorola and Sony Ericsson and MOAP(S) by NTT DOCOMO and Fujitsu.
This contributed software will be available under a royalty-free license to foundation members from the first day of Symbian Foundation operations, expected 1H 2009.
Until then the members are working to unify all the working parts of the software, with a view to making the code open source by June 2010.
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