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In the continuing saga of Apple firmware updates for the iPhone versus free ranging programmers developing ways to unlock the phone, a new chapter looks to be opening up. The iPhone Dev Team, responsible for the free iPhone unlocking solution known as AnySIM, has decided to make the offering open source in an attempt to keep up with Apple and also keep the code clean.

Gizmodo has a solid break down of what has been happening. An earlier report details an interview with one of the team members in which it was revealed most of the "core members of the team" were ok with putting AnySIM into an open source model. The hope by doing this was to create legitimate development versions of the application and not hacked together pieces based upon "rip offs" of the original code.

AnySIM, after a poll was conducted, is now moving into an open source model. Again, citing Gizmodo, the plan is to release the code under the General Public License. This seems to be a smart move on the part of the iPhone Dev Team to do this so as to keep potentially bad, modified versions of their work from creeping around the Internet. Expect the open source AnySIM this Friday.