The Symbian Foundation, creator of the operating system for smart phones used the world over, is giving away codes worth "billions of dollars."
Thus, the firm complies with the announcement made in 2008, when he said the system would open-source mode (in English, "open source").
This means that any organization or individual can now use and modify the operating system source code for any purpose.
The Foundation believes that this would attract new programmers to work on the system and accelerate its progress."It's the biggest migration ever made open source," he told the BBC Lee Williams, of the Symbian Foundation.
The Finnish giant Nokia bought the system in 2008 and supported the foundation Symbian Foundation "nonprofit" to oversee the development and transition to open source.
The foundation expects Nokia to reduce its involvement in the foundation to less than 50% in 2011. The Finnish company will oversee the new developments to maintain the quality of the operating system.
Symbian participate in AT & T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone.
Ian Fogg, analyst with Forrester, said that it is a Symbian move to "move from a business model to another," and yet "winning position in the mind of the customer."
The move comes after the emergence of Android, the mobile operating system from Google, which is also open source.
But Williams, Symbian, denied that it is a marketing move.
"We had the idea of 12 to 18 months before Android and the iPhone launch," he said, while acknowledging that needs "desperately" to have more positioning.
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