Nokia has not only left Symbian out in the cold, it has also closed the door to its once beloved operating system, officially ending its days as an open-source platform and taking down online distributions of it.
The code for Symbian had been recently republished online, but the Finnish phonemaker says it can no longer be used without a commercial deal with the firm, something we highly doubt will appeal to – well – anyone.
Indeed, the only people who might still need Symbian source code would be the few straggling existing platform partners left. And there’s certainly no point leaving your door open if no one is planning on walking through it.
For those phone OS history and archeology buffs out there, however, you can still find the old open-source version of the software from days of yore before the Symbian Foundation closed it down. It has now sadly been relegated to an unofficial code dump page, left to rot.
RIP
