“The release of the microkernel demonstrates three vital, guiding principles of the foundation: first, the commitment of many community members to the development of the platform – in this case, Accenture, ARM, Nokia and Texas Instruments Incorporated all made contributions second, progress in fulfilling our commitment to a complete open source release of Symbian and third, a tangible example of providing the most advanced mobile platform in the world,” said Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, in the press release. Sixteen our of the 134 platform packages have now had their source code opened up this process started in April 2009 under guidance of the Symbian Foundation. The Foundation claims that the opening up of the kernel source code is nine months ahead of schedule, which is pretty awesome.
The Foundation’s plan is to open up the entire platform, and this is of course a very important milestone in that process. It comes with a complete development kit, free of charge. Ahead of schedule, the Symbian Foundation has released the source code to Symbian’s EKA2 real-time, multitasking, SMP microkernel, under the Eclipse Public License.
