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Coming Battle Over Open Source Phones (Forbes)
Forbes interviews Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation, about the Symbian announcement, the merger with LiPS, and competition with Android. "The traditional point of difference--royalty rates--has dissolved for now, but other points of difference will emerge between the platforms. While both are open-source, LiMo uses the Linux kernel, which is the jewel in the crown of the open-source development world. There's deep familiarity there with our technology. The Symbian kernel has grown up as a proprietary item. The open-source community needs time to get familiar with that technology."
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Coming Battle Over Open Source Phones (Forbes) Posted Jun 30, 2008 15:22 UTC (Mon) by xav (subscriber, #18536) [Link] I think the bigger difference is the GPL compatibility. It looks like Symbian painted itself in a corner with its own licence.
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