Symbian as open source software
In the last days we saw a smart move from Nokia: it bought the remaining shares of Symbian and decided to release the OS as open source software.
Here the talk by O'Reilly Radar.
Although Symbian is not so brand new as Google's Android, the move from Nokia seems like a direct attack to iPhone's platform and the upcoming Android.
As O'Reilly Radar points out, the license choosen by Nokia is not the standard Linux GNU Public License, but the Eclipse Public License; the main difference is that, thanks the EPL, Nokia will be free to include proprietary extensions (so without shipping the source code, as required by the GPL) in its Symbian release.