Nokia's plan to open source the Symbian mobile OS platform is no threat to mobile Linux, maintains the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Jim Zemlin maintains that mobile Linux will continue to evolve and flourish in spite of Nokia's plans and the formation of the Symbian Foundation, whose membership includes several members of LiMO including Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, and Vodaphone. "Now that Symbian will be open and royalty free one of the advantages that Linux had over that platform is gone," acknowledged Zemlin, in a blog written last week after the deal was announced. "However, there continue to be some fundamental disadvantages relative to Linux that Symbian must deal with. " Symbian's large installed base is a plus... ...
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