The founders of Symbian OS are taking measures to make it Open Source and therefore enable all mobile manufacturers to easily incorporate the open mobile platform into their devices. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo are planning to unite the Symbian OS, Nokia's S60 platform, Sony Ericsson's UIQ platform and NTT Docomo's MOAP(S) platform into a unified open Mobile software platform with a common UI framework.

Other mobile leaders like LG, Samsung, AT&T, Vodafone, Texas Instruments etc are also planning to join Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo and form a non profit Symbian Foundation. All members of this foundation would make periodic contributions for the development and enhancement of the open mobile software platform and will have royalty free rights to use the platform. Membership of Symbian Foundation will also be open to all organizations. The Symbian Foundation would start operating in the first half of 2009 after the complete acquisition of Symbian Ltd by Nokia. Read the complete story here.

This move has probably been taken to compete with Google's open Android OS and also the open source Linux mobile platform and would be a wake up call for Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. Tell us what you think about this move by the Industry mobile leaders.

Source: Symbian Freak.