“In a conference call this afternoon, Nokia and the Symbian Foundation outlined some major changes in how the Symbian operating system will be managed, going forwards. The Symbian Foundation will still handle licensing, trademark and patent issues, among other tasks, but all governance of the open source Symbian codebase will be taken up by Nokia. It was remarked that the ‘foundation’ model made perfect sense when there were five companies depending on the OS, but that it made less sense now, in late 2010. A new ‘transition’ phase was spoken of, up until March 2011, for these changes to be fully implemented, with comment that permanent manpower at the Symbian Foundation would be minimal after April 2011. Currently the Foundation has around 100 employees. It’s worth remembering that these changes are structural in nature and are independent from any development of the Symbian code itself, most of which is already undertaken by Nokia programmers.” Read more here:
