LinuxInsider Talkback

Re: Open Symbian: New World Order or Big Yawn?
Posted by: Katherine Noyes 2010-02-08 06:20:30

See Full Story

It's not every day that a major operating system gets opened up, never mind one that leads the global market in its category. So, when the news came out last week that that's just what the Symbian Foundation had done -- and four months ahead of schedule, no less! -- it was hard not to get excited. Android is no longer the only big kid on the open source mobile block, it seems, and the scales are now tipped considerably more in FOSS' direction.

The QT Gambit
Posted by: ricegf 2010-02-09 04:41:22 In reply to: Katherine Noyes

You might also mention that Nokia's developer strategy is based on QT ("cute"), the open source foundation for the KDE Linux desktop. An application written in QT will run not only on Windows, Mac, KDE, Gnome, WinCE, and Symbian, but the N900's open source Maemo Linux as well. In fact, the next Maemo smartphone from Nokia will use QT as the default library (the N900 uses Gnome's GTK+).

Symbian's open sourcing makes the entire Symbian / Maemo / QT smartphone ecosystem unified and open source. I think Nokia "gets it".

See http://qt.nokia.com for info.