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Symbian heart transplant operation is a success. Today, the most popular mobile OS in the world has finally completed its move to open source camp, thanks to the efforts by the Symbian Foundation (http://www.symbian.org). Symbian’s base-code will be available for download at the foundation’s website beginning from 10:00 pm (Malaysian Standard Time) today.

Many wondered, why would a closed source OS - the core of more than 300 million phones across the world - have a change of heart? Apparently, one of the biggest reasons behind the move is to increase the speed of development for the platform.

“When we chatted to companies who develop third party applications, we found people would spend up to nine months just trying to navigate the intellectual property. That was really hindering the rate of progress.” – Lee Williams, Symbian Foundation

It doesn’t take an expert to see that the Symbian OS are having a hard time warding off challenges given by the current mobile industry’s darlings, the Google’s Android and Apple iPhone. By turning Symbian OS into open source, the move might be able to breath a new life to the rather aged-platform. But then again, might.