InformationWeek: Symbian’s Open Source Gambit Ups Stakes In Mobile OS War

Nick Hoover reports on the Symbian/Nokia announcement and how it affects the mobile OS market, with comments by Jim.

“The Linux Foundation continues to make strides in pushing for standards across the different Linux distributions. According to Zemlin, the Symbian Foundation could take similar steps: define opens standard based on Symbian, write a test framework to validate with that standard, create app tools to write to the standard, and create a trademark like Symbian Certified that indicates compliance.”