Symbian lays foundations for open source (451 CAOS)

451 CAOS reports from the Symbian Smartphone Show with an eye toward the upcoming open-source release of the Symbian code. "As David Rivas noted, the biggest risk was in setting up the organisation to manage the project itself. He noted that the employees of foundation members will be responsible for development and engineering but that employees of the foundation itself will not get involved in development. Foundation employees (who will number 100-150) will be responsible for admin, foundation management, support, marketing and software management and will corral the development teams to create the roadmap without getting involved in directing development projects themselves." It's a rare free software project which requires over 100 non-developers to support it.

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