Mobile Market Going Open Source?
At this year’s GSMA Mobile World Congress, 3 ½ hours were devoted to the topic of “Mobilizing Open Source”, which was no doubt spurred in part by the increasing attention Google’s open-source mobile operating system, Android, has drawn. While open-source products have, for the most part, been pushed into a corner and untouched in the enterprise due to lack of support, regular updates, and compatibility, the mobile market is a unique bird. We already have a diversity of mobile operating systems–Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, BlackBerry OS, Palm OS and upcoming webOS, and Android, to name a few–, making for more competition, more innovation, and more opportunities for something different.
“At last year’s GSMWC, the question was will we or won’t we move to open source. This year, it’s not a question of will we, but how we should go about doing it,” said David Schlesinger, director of Open Source Technologies at ACCESS, creator of the NetFront web browser used in many mobile phones as well as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s PSP.
Mobile Market Going Open Source?
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