Mobile operating system maker Symbian has announced its support for the Open Cloud Manifesto, an initiative dedicated to the promotion of open IT ideals among cloud providers and users.In a blog post, Ian McDonald, head of IT for the Symbian Foundation argued that with the popularity of cloud computing growing all the time, “there is a real need to ensure that the cloud is open and not a proprietary lock-in”.“Symbian is an organisation that is passionate about being open – the planning for our releases, the decision making processes (including the councils) and all our code are out in the open,” he wrote.

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