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4th February 2010 - Link Blog

Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free. With Symbian now open source, are there any widely used operating systems left (besides Windows) that don’t have an open source core?

Posted 4th February 2010 at 8:38 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 4th February 2010.

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