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Symbian is closed source (and, as you say very popular and very good). The open source Nokia is looking to adopt is Linux, already seen on the N810. Nokia seem

Symbian is closed source (and, as you say very popular and very good). The open source Nokia is looking to adopt is Linux, already seen on the N810. Nokia seems to be making the move to cut development costs. Nokia also doesn't just sell phones, they also sell network infrastructure and service and software outside of the telecomms industry. Quite why they think that the OSS world will help them with DRM is beyond me. It seems highly optimistic at best. But since it is open source they can really do what they want provided they are willing to comply with the license and pay their own developers. There is not much stopping companies erecting DRM on top of Linux (and other GPLv2 code) - see TiVo and the motivation for moving to GPL v3 for an example.

sunkencity 18y ago
I'd say the S60 platform is hopelessly outdated. The phones look the same and are almost functionally the same as they were 4 years ago, just a little bit faster. Why is there no decent browser on any other phone than the iPhone? I think that these new OSes on mobile that are unix based will totally change the mobile phone world because they are enginneered to be computers rather than direct descendants from voice handset. A friend had hanged out with some Ericsson developers he knows and they were laughing at the iphone design. "It hasn't got any high performance mobile chips", "They're designing this phone totally wrong"... Yeah, it's because the phone is no longer a phone, it's a computer. (Hopefully a computer one can install a free OS on and liberate :)