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Nokia's Symbian Foundation to become licensing group
Nokia is taking over the Symbian Foundation to turn it into a licensing organization, though the company says it will still support the mobile operating system.
Nokia has taken over the Symbian Foundation and announced plans to downsize it and turn it into a licensing organization. Nokia added that it is committed to the mobile operating system.
The fate of the Symbian Foundation was up in the air after Lee Williams, the group's executive director stepped down last month. The Symbian Foundation was in charge of managing and unifying Symbian and developing it. Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson were among the primary board members.
Now the Symbian Foundation will become "a legal entity responsible for licensing software and other intellectual property, such as the Symbian trademark".
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