Nokia's open source play

July 16, 2008 (Wednesday) | Open Source

I didn't have a chance yet to write about this due to some recent travel, but better late than never. About 10 days ago, Nokia acquired the remaining 52% of Symbian that they didn't already own for a cool $410 million. Nokia also announced that they would open source all of the Symbian code. This follows on Nokia's earlier acquisition this year of Trolltech, the open source GUI toolkit developer, for $153 million. For those not familiar with it, Symbian is a platform created jointly between Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Psion ten years ago. (Symbian evolved from the EPOC platform...