Nokia takes back control of Symbian

Nokia now will assume a role in Symbian development more analogous to what Google is doing with Android, and unlike its recent effort to create a bigger open source community around the mobile operating system.

Nokia says it now will care of Symbian platform development from April 2011 onwards, while the cross-industry Symbian Foundation will in the future take care of only licensing of the software.

Nokia bought out other shareholders in Symbian in 2008 and opened the software for any manufacturers to use for free on an open-source basis. But that effort has fizzled, leaving Nokia as the primary backer of the mobile operating system.

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