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Nokia was actively considering android for about 14 months so its not surprising that there would be code commits from Nokia. Although, internal politics had i

by shareme 16y ago

Nokia was actively considering android for about 14 months so its not surprising that there would be code commits from Nokia. Although, internal politics had its impact certainly the obstacle of getting Nokia mobile services such as Maps, etc on android was the final no vote of going with android.

sho_hn 16y ago
That's not the reason why there is code written by Nokia employees in the Android source tree (as the article points out, by the way). The reason is that Nokia has become a significant contributor to the Linux kernel (e.g. UBIFS, drivers for TI SoCs, ...) and some Linux userspace projects (e.g. bluez and D-Bus) following the acquisition of Trolltech (Qt has a significant presence on Linux, obviously) and their Maemo and MeeGo Linux-based mobile operating system efforts. And a lot of that stuff is sitting in the Android source tree, and some of it is also in actual use in Android production system images. OTOH I'm not aware of any Nokia contributions to the Android-exclusive parts of the Android source tree.